Styling a Map¶
When a new dataset is added to GeoServer the layer for it is usually assigned a very basic style. To properly visualize the data a style specific to that data must be created.
This tutorial walks through the steps to create a new style in GeoServer and provides an introduction to the Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) styling language.
Note
It is assumed that the tutorials Publishing a Shapefile and Publishing a PostGIS Table have been completed.
Getting started¶
Before continuing with this tutorial it is strongly recommended that the section Introduction to SLD be first read.