Posted December 6, 2011 in Style Document Layer (.sld), Web Mapping & GIS
Introduction GeoServer uses Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) to visualize geospatial data. SLD is a XML-based standard created by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). For more information on the SLD schema, please see the OGC page on Styled Layer Descriptor at [...]
Posted October 10, 2011 in Style Document Layer (.sld), Web Mapping & GIS
Introduction Traditionally when building an SLD the best approach was to build a set of several different filtered rules. Whilst this works fine, if the only thing that changes between rules is the colour it creates a lot of unnecessary [...]
Posted March 23, 2011 in Style Document Layer (.sld), Web Mapping & GIS
This example uses hatching to create a railroad style. First we draw a 5 pixel thickness grey line used as our two rail lines, second we draw a 2 pixel thickness line with the same colour as our map background [...]
Posted March 23, 2011 in Style Document Layer (.sld), Web Mapping & GIS
Multiple LineSymbolizer can be added a single rule to create rich line simbolisers. In this example two LineSymbolizer have been added to a single rule: LineSymbolizer 1: a stroke width of 4 and dashed of 1 pixels of drawn line, [...]