Add a Layer

GeoServer Tutorials > Add a Layer

Note: In order to create a Layer, you will need to create a Store. If you have not created one, do so now.

 

1. On the left menu, click on Layers

 

2. Click the 'Add new layer' link

 

3. In the New Layer dropdown, select 'postgis:postgis'

 

4. Upon selection, a list of layers availeble for publiscation will appear. On the 'neighborhoods' layer, click the Publish' link

 

 

5. Scroll down to the 'Bounding Boxes' section.

For 'Native Bounding Box', click 'Compute from data' link.

On the 'Lat/Lon Bounding Box' section, click 'Compute from native bounds'

 

 

Accept all other defaults and click 'Save'

Preview Layer

We can now preview our layer.

To do so, go to Layer Preview:

 

 

Then click the 'OpenLayers' link:

 

Customize Features

The features available for display can be customized.

To do so click the 'Customize attributes' box

 

 

With 'Customize attributes' selected, we can edit Name, Type, Source, Description, Nillable, as well as Remove feature:

 

 
   
Click the Save button

 

 

 

 

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