Web GIS Handbook

By Ryan Phlean

A web map that works in a demonstration is only the beginning. The real challenge is building one that remains fast, secure, reliable, and understandable when real users and real data arrive.Web GIS Handbook gives you a practical, system-level understanding of how modern interactive mapping applications are designed, developed, deployed, and scaled. It brings together geospatial data, client-side libraries, map servers, spatial databases, APIs, cloud platforms, security, performance, mobile design, and real-time systems in one structured resource.
Inside, you will learn how to: Design effective client-server and multi-tier Web GIS architecturesChoose suitable raster, vector, tile, and spatial service technologiesWork with GeoServer, MapServer, Leaflet, OpenLayers, and MapLibreStore, index, and optimize spatial data with PostgreSQL and PostGISConnect applications to REST APIs and external geospatial servicesDesign accessible, responsive, and intuitive interactive mapsBuild geoprocessing and spatial-analysis servicesEvaluate ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, and cloud deployment optionsIntegrate mobile workflows, real-time data, sensors, and IoT streamsImprove application security, caching, scalability, and resilienceAssess emerging developments in AI, 3D mapping, and edge computingFourteen comprehensive chapters move from foundational principles to production concerns, helping you understand not just how individual tools operate, but how they fit together as a dependable geospatial system.
If you are ready to progress from assembling map components to engineering complete interactive mapping applications, this practical Web GIS reference gives you the architecture, judgment, and technical vocabulary to build with confidence.Build applications designed to perform beyond the prototype-get your copy today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFKMB7D7
• ISBN13: 9798193307297
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"