Chapter 4. Geoprocessing
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Installing the WPS module
- Using the WPS process builder
- Chaining process – selecting features contained in a polygon
- Chaining process – building your own task
Introduction
Apart from requesting map and data, GeoServer has another great feature: it can be used as a geoprocessing server. Geoprocessing lets the user perform operations on data, transform them, and also produce new datasets. The general concept is that the user creates a task by selecting the input data and operations to be performed on them.
Geoprocessing is a traditional concept in desktop GIS; in fact, this type of software is created to process spatial data. Later, geoprocessing was migrated to the server side; ...
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