In recent months, I have been asked numerous times for my notes on how to set up an open source GIS server. Although I meticulously document all my installations, my notes were admittedly scattered between several documents that focus on setting up Ubuntu Server, Geoserver, PostGIS, or integrating QGIS. I wrote this tutorial in an …
There are various ways to serve rasters on Geoserver, but when dealing with hundreds or thousands of tiles, it is usually best to process imagery using GDAL. Although one could use Geoserver’s ImageMosaic plugin to serve tiles directly, I have not had much success with this approach when dealing larger datasets (e.g. >1000 tiles) . In …