Geoprocessing
In this case "Geoprocessing" means doing specialized spatial processing on data as required in my web maps work.
This page used to cover geoprocessing in the ESRI world, and it was mostly about tips for Python+ArcPy. I rewrote it to document WPS (Web Processing Service) first in GeoServer and later on in ArcGIS Enterprise.
I have separate pages on building and using GDAL and PostGIS, see the GIS category.
I built a Docker Compose GeoServer for testing, and I have added plugins to it for WPS. I also have been developing an OpenLayers Javascript client.
Books
Expert GeoServer by Ben Mearns, is a very short book (134 pages) covering primarily WPS and Tile Caching (two unrelated topics, both interesting).
Penn State class
I am walking through this full detailed lesson plan: Open Web Mapping So far, very good!
Boundless tutorial
IGNORE should you run across this Contour Map setup from Boundless Geospatial. In the Boundless docs it's difficult for a beginnto tell what is a tool they provide (such as Composer) and what things are actually part of GeoServer. Theoretically it's all open source but in practice what you find on Github tends to be nonfunctional.
Use case: Select adjacent taxlots
- User selects a taxlot in the Javscript client.
- This causes adjacent taxlots to be selected.
- Information about all selected taxlots appears in a table.
GeoMoose used to use use PHP Mapscript. They are client side only now so not really doing geoprocessing anymore.
The GeoServer demo "WPS Request Builder" feature is useless (probably more learning curve problems!). I seek other examples.
