Welcome to the User's Guide

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.

After working through the basics here, we recommend going to the top level User section, which has much more depth on all that a user can do with GeoServer.

It is a WIKI so feel free to add documentation.

• User's Guide
  1. Quickstart
     • This will get your GeoServer installed and running.
  2. Add Your Own Dataset (Shapefile) (screencast)
     • Here you will learn how to add and view a Shapefile.
  3. Add your own Raster background (TIFF)
     • This will guide you through adding a GeoTiff coverage background layer
  4. Additional Data Format Configuration
     • Stable: PostGIS, Oracle, ArcSDE, DB2, Shapefile.
     • Unstable: MySQL, VPF, MapInfo, WFS.
  5. Configuring GeoServer's settings
     • An introduction to configuring GeoServer's settings.
  6. Styling your Map (screencasts for new style and edit style)
     • A tutorial on SLD's, the open standard GeoServer uses for Styling.
  7. Full User Docs
     • The full user documentation, for in depth reference.

Keywords Shapefile: A group of files stored on disk that hold spatial data and other information. PostGIS: A Spatially enabled database that rocks!