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Overview

The User portion of the documentation is focused on getting new users up to speed with all the capabilities of GeoServer.  The 0.1 Introduction contains background information on the GeoServer, and the 0.2 How to Help section details how you can easily become involved in the GeoServer project.

Users wanting to get started quickly can go to the Tutorials, which contains cross cutting links into the full docs on how to get GeoServer up and running quickly.

Users new to OGC protocols will find interesting documentation on other sites, such as full blown web mapping courses and the like.

User Configuration

The full depth of user configuration of GeoServer is found under 2 Configuring GeoServer. The sections on 2.2 Service Configuration and 2.1 Data Configuration are focused on the web admin tool, and detail all the possible options. 1.1 Install GeoServer gives in depth information on how install initially, while 2.4 GeoServer Data Directory details an easy path to upgrade and distribute alternate configurations of GeoServer. And 2.6 GeoServer in Production Environment gives tips for setting up GeoServer to actual serve data, instead of just demoing a sample instance.

User Tutorials

The Tutorials section contains a variety of step by step guides to get started with various aspecs of GeoServer.  Some of these are linked to in the Users Guide, but some are not.

Beyond GeoServer

The final section is 5 Beyond GeoServer, which contains a variety information that is not directly related to GeoServer, but is likely quite useful to our users. This is the place in the documentation that is the easiest to get involved, and where users can have the biggest impact, since the core developers of GeoServer have an easy time documenting GeoServer itself, but the knowledge is spread more thin when we go beyond. The Clients section contains information about clients that are known to work with GeoServer. Please feel free to add any additional information, about experiences and how to configure the clients for GeoServer, as well as new WMS or WFS clients. Data Loading contains potentially helpful information on loading up TIGER data into GeoServere, tips and tricks that we've found when doing it ourselves.  And Spec Explanations and Sample Requests contains information that is more generic to how the open interfaces such as WMS, WFS, SLD, and Filter work - information that is quite useful to new users, but is in no way unique to GeoServer.  We're hoping to expand this section in to its own space, but for now this is just a holding section for spec related info that doesn't fit elsewhere. Finally 6 User Experiences is the easiest place for new contributors to make an impact, as we encourage informal experiences, and just links to GeoServer applications.

Full User Documentation

0 General Information

Here you can find background information about GeoServer, its license, and its comminity.

1 Getting Started

  • 1.1 Install GeoServer — Installing GeoServer is relatively simple, however there is more than one way to do so. The appropriate method depends upon the operating system and container (such as Tomcat) that will be used.
    • 1.1.1 Windows Install — How to install GeoServer on Microsoft Windows with the installer (.exe).
    • 1.1.2 Binary Package Install — How to set up GeoServer with the binary distribution package (-bin version) for Mac, Unix, and Windows platforms.  This is used for manually installing the files and  running GeoServer as a Java program without a wrapper such as Tomcat.
    • 1.1.3 War-File install — How to install GeoServer into servlet containers such as Tomcat, Jetty, and Jboss.
    • 1.1.4 CentOS (Red Hat) 5.1 Install — How to install GeoServer on CentOS 5.x (also valid for Red Hat 5.x), including Postgresql with Postgis support.
  • 1.2 Add a Dataset — Configure GeoServer to serve up your data
  • 1.3 Style Your Map — A quick tutorial on how to create and use SLD files to style your map
  • 1.4 Configure GeoServers Settings — How to configure the various settings in GeoServer
  • 1.5 Additional Data Formats — Extra data formats such as PostGIS, Oracle, DB2, ArcSDE and MySQL.

2 Configuring GeoServer

This section of the docs is focused on setting up a geoserver instance for use.

3 Services

4 Tutorials

This page is intended for beginners who have never used GeoServer before or who have used it only a few times and are learning the basics.

5 Beyond GeoServer

  • Clients
    • ArcGIS — ArcGIS is the name of a group of Geographic Information System software product lines produced by ESRI. ArcGIS 8.3 and up includes support of OGC standards.
    • ArcView GIS — ArcView GIS is a Geographic Information System software product produced by ESRI. ArcView GIS supports WMS as raster themes through ARC3WMS Extension by Refractions Research.
    • BeeldBlad — BeeldBlad is an OGC Web Mapping Service 1. WMS client to be used in web pages. BeeldBlad (Dutch for "image sheet") is written in Adobe Flash and can therefore be used by all kind of browsers. It can be downloaded free of charge, so you can use it in your web mapping application.
    • deegree iGeoportal — deegree's iGeoPortal client is based on OpenGeospatial Consortium's Web Map Context, which defines map client status information. Apart from benefits of using an open standard, the employment of the Web Map Context specification eases the development of clients by relying on reusable modules and making extensive use of XML technology.
    • Drupal — Drupal is a content management system (CMS) that can be used to display WMS layers from GeoServer into Drupalized websites through Google Maps API
    • Fulcrum — Fulcrum consists of several Swing/Java2d based well-developed client libraries.
    • Geoar — Geoar is a GPL server side WebGIS client implemented in OpenLaszlo. Actually implements WMS service access (soon WFS).
    • Google Earth
    • Google Maps — OpenLayers is a free javascript mapping application that you can use to overlay maps from GeoServer on Google Maps, Virtual Earth, Yahoo! Maps, and other sources.
    • gvSig — gvSIG is a desktop based tool for handling geographical information. It currently can connect to WMS, with WFS support coming soon.
    • InterMap — InterMap is a portal based web map client, developed by UN-FAO and UN-WFP, focused on ease of use and low bandwidth situations.
    • Internet Mapping Framework — IMF provides a powerful framework for quickly setting up mapping sites. It is closed source, supports WMS and WFS-T, and is J2EE java-based.
    • MapBender — Mapbender is a GPL server side WebGIS client framework implemented in PHP. It is based on a user, WMS, WFS and GUI management and can be used as a framework to deploy geo portal software.
    • MapBuilder — Mapbuilder is a LGPL client-side javascript library for putting mapping in a web page, using an AJAX style of interaction
    • Mapserver — MapServer is an Open Source development environment for building spatially-enabled internet applications. It supports WMS, WFS and WFS-T (partially).
    • Mobile Clients
    • MyMaps — MyMaps is a java based open source WMS client
    • NASA WorldWind — WorldWind is an amazing 3d viewer supported by NASA. It is an open source project, and it uses all standard WMS calls
    • OpenJUMP — OpenJUMP is an open source GIS software written in Java. It is based on JUMP GIS by Vivid Solutions.
    • OpenLayers — OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies. It supports [WMS] layers.
    • PrimaGIS — PrimaGIS is a collaborative web mapping application for Plone. It is free software and licenced under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL).
    • Quantum GIS — Quantum GIS (QGIS) is Qt based Open Source Geographic Information System built on top of GDAL and OGR.
    • UDIG — User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS is an Eclipse -based desktop application supporting WFS, WMS and WFS-T protocols, put together by some GeoServer alumni working at Refractions Research.
    • Virtual Earth — Virtual Earth is Microsoft's mapping solution, both 2d and 3d, all online.
    • worldKit — worldKit is an easy to use and flexible mapping application for the Web. Light weight GIS. It's a SWF based app, configured by XML, data fed by RSS. It support WMS.
  • Data Loading
  • More documentation on OGC services
  • Spec Explanations and Sample Requests

6 User Experiences

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