Adding a PostGIS Layer

This section explains how to add some of the base data types into GeoServer. As an example we will learn how to insert a ShapeFile and GeoTIFF into GeoServer, as well as how to import a Shapefile into PostGIS and then publish it from there.

What you will learn

In this section you will learn:

• Loading a Shapefile into PostGIS - shp2pgsql
• Loading a Shapefile into PostGIS - ogr2ogr
• Adding a PostGIS layer