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:JasonBaker130@anonymised.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
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