Welcome to GeoServer, GeoServer is pretty large, and depending on what you need to do, you may be able to focus on a smaller part of it (say, just the web map service).
The best "forum" for GeoServer use is probably this mailing list. You'll likely get best results if you say exactly what you need to achieve, what you've already tried, and what the results were (remember we can't see your screen and we don't know what you've tried, so you need to describe it). Then say what you expected to happen instead. Vague questions or things that don't show any effort will likely get ignored in favour of questions that don't take as much work to interpret. If you'd prefer a web-based option, the GIS stackexchange site may work. Same guidance on questions though. Otherwise, there is pretty good documentation (docs.geoserver.org) and many presentations from FOSS4G conferences and the like are available on video. If you ask questions that are in the docs, you're using up credibility. There are also professional training options, especially around the FOSS4G conferences. In the end, there is no substitute for having a test server and experimenting to build up experience. Once again, welcome. Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: Jbake [mailto:jasonbaker...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 11 October 2016 01:57 > To: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Geoserver-users] New to GeoServer > > Hello, I am new to GeoServer. I have been tasked with my company to learn > GeoServer inside and out as we plan to use this as our mapping server for > our software. Problem is this is 100% new to me, and well I don't really > know where to start. There doesn't seem to be many YouTube videos or > Forums > on GeoServer. I have the GeoServer for Beginners and GeoServer Cookbook > from Packt, but still feel alittle iffy on it all. > > My goal is to learn Geoserver Basics, Tile and Pyramid images, and cache > them. Right now I am using Blue Marble images as they want the "pretty" > world view as right now built into our software its just plain green land > drawing with blue water when zoomed out. I learned I needed QGIS so I > used > that to add some GPS points into the images. So I was able to add them into > GeoServer. > > Now I just don't know where to go from here? When I view images that I > think are cached in Layer preview, they don't load very quickly and once I > get past zoom level 4 they don't load. Can anyone point to some beginner > things or tasks? YouTube videos or anything for learning GeoServer? > > Thank you very Much, > Jason > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/New- > to-GeoServer-tp5290041.html > Sent from the GeoServer - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
