Database Reference
In-Depth Information
and then, on the
Edit Layer
page, click on the
Publishing
section. Select
Counties classified per size
in the
Default style
drop-down list and then
click on the
Save
button.
11. Now that your WMS and WFS services for the PostGIS
counties
layer
are ready, it is time to start using them! First, test the
GetCapabilities
WMS request. To do this, you can click on one of the links on the right-
hand side panel on the GeoServer web application home page. You can
click on the link for either WMS Version 1.1.1 or WMS Version 1.3.0. Click
on one of the links or type the
GetCapabilities
request directly in the
browser as
http://localhost:8080/geoserver/
ows?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities
.
12. Now, we will investigate the
GetCapabilities
response, which is shown
as follows. You will find a lot of information about WMS that is available on
yourGeoServerinstance,suchastheWMS-supportedrequests,projections,
andalotofotherinformationabouteachpublishedlayer.Inthecaseofthe
counties
layer,thefollowingcodeisanextractfromthe
GetCapabilit-
ies
document.Notethemainlayerinformationsuchasthename,title,ab-
stract(youcouldredefinealloftheseusingtheGeoServerwebapplication),
the supported
CRS
(
Coordinate Reference Systems
), the geographic ex-
tent, and the associated style:
<Layer queryable="1">
<Name>postgis_cookbook:counties</Name>
<Title>counties</Title>
<Abstract/>
<KeywordList>
<Keyword>counties</Keyword>
<Keyword>features</Keyword>
</KeywordList>
<CRS>EPSG:4326</CRS>
<CRS>CRS:84</CRS>
<EX_GeographicBoundingBox>
<westBoundLongitude>-179.133392333984</westBoundLongitude>
<eastBoundLongitude>-64.566162109375</eastBoundLongitude>
<southBoundLatitude>17.6746921539307</southBoundLatitude>
