I said it in the title, I’ll say it again, SLDs are not just for ugly maps. I’ve heard from several professionals in this geospatial sector that CartoCSS is so cool– “look at the great cartography you can get out of it”. And, truth be told, creating a standard for cartography that aligns so well with existing web development standards is a brilliant way to … Continue reading Advanced Cartography in #GeoServer– #SLDs can make for very pretty maps

At my place of employment, we have a vegetation survey program with enough potential plots to serve 50 years of data collection. The points are laid out in a Generalized Random Tessellation Stratified (GRTS) to maximize the statistical power of the analyses we do with them. Read more about GRTS. I dare you. Actually, it’s not so bad if you understand Quad-Trees and the like– … Continue reading Complex Symbolization in GeoServer or Compass Rose Mania– the GeoServer Version