Dear Reader,

after almost 10 years at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) leading the Innovation and Compliance Programs, I am very excited to join GeoSolutions and support developing of open source solutions in the US and Americas (See blog about the opening of US Office). In these years at OGC, I was not only able to see the raise of new open standards within the OGC agile prototyping approach, but also the raise and uptake of open source implementations of OCG standards. I remember, when I joined OGC, there were only two reference implementations: GeoServer for WMS and WFS and GeoNetwork for CSW.

GeoSolutions has been a company I have interacted with for many years. They have been selected as participants in several OGC Initiatives.  For example, in the 2019 Vector Tiles Pilot, the new OGC API (then called WFS 3.0) was advanced to serve tiles. GeoSolutions demonstrated WFS 3.0 and WMTS extensions with GeoServer and MapStore. The demonstration included and advance analysis of different styling approaches that is shaping the current OGC standards. The Pilot page provides the videos. I'm highlighting only two:

GeoSolutions_VTP Extension_WMTS GeoServer Service with MapStore Client

In 2017, at the  OGC Testbed 13, test suites and implementations were developed in support of the efforts the US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)  to advance profiles of the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG). GeoSolutions was selected to  implement WFS 2.0 and WMTS 1.0 profiles with GeoServer. Which speaks of the skills of GeoSolutions to adapt to particular needs and challenges in the US.

Part of my core believes are openness, open standards, and open source software. Geospatial software, will continue to impact our daily lives and solve complex problems for industry and governments. I'm excited to be part of the GeoSolutions team and I'm looking forward to support US and the Americas with robust open source solutions.

If you are interested in learning about how we can help you achieve your goals with our open source products GeoServer, MapStore, GeoNode and GeoNetwork through our Enterprise Support Services and GeoServer Subscription offerings, feel free to contact us!

Dear Reader,

In the last 13 years, GeoSolutions has helped more than 150 customers all over the world to integrate, deploy and operate enterprise solutions based on our renowned open source geospatial products GeoServer, MapStore, GeoNode and GeoNetwork through our Enterprise Support Services and our GeoServer Subscription offerings.  We are now happy to announce that in order to provide better services to existing and prospect clients from the North American market, we have decided to go one step further and open a subsidiary  company in the US. 

Our US office will strengthen our presence in the area as it will be dedicated exclusively to attend our North American potential and existing customers. It will enable focused customer support ,  and exchange of knowledge and ideas to come up with new and exciting projects that can be delivered as operational services. We are aiming to bring all of our expertise on our Open Source geospatial products closer to you. 

The new office will start operations effectively in early January 2020 and will be located in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. The CEO of GeoSolutions USA will be announced by then. We can anticipate that we have selected a prominent profile in the geospatial industry with extensive experience in geospatial solutions with a focus on interoperability.

We are all thrilled about the launch of our new office in the US as we see this milestone both as the coronation of the efforts exerted by our staff in the last years but also as an excellent opportunity to further fuel our growth.

If you are interested in learning about how we can help you achieve your goals with our open source products GeoServer, MapStore, GeoNode and GeoNetwork through our Enterprise Support Services and GeoServer Subscription offerings, feel free to contact us!

The GeoSolutions team,

Dear Reader,

We are pleased to announce the release 2019.02.01 of MapStore, our flagship Open Source WebGIS product. The full list of changes for this release can be found here, but the most interesting additions are the following:

• Improvements to the layer filtering capabilities: improved the autocomplete functionality for attribute fields according to other filters applied
• Print tool: filters defined on layers are now applied to the final print too
• Layers list query parameter: now you can add layers to the map defining them in a new URL query paremeter, look at the documentation here
• Improved documentation: Attribute Table and Theme customization sections have been enriched
• Catalog tool: improved with autosearch
• Hardening: many bug fixes and performance improvements for both desktop and mobile

GeoStory

Application Contexts and Viewer Composer

• Define a custom name that will identify the viewer's context path inside the MapStore URL

• Define and configure which plugins need to be active inside the viewer

• Configure the viewer map in terms of: default map scale/center, map CRS, layers and groups of layers in TOC, backgrounds (with the new admin UI that will be available in next major release!)

Further ongoing and future work

For the next releases we have plans to work on the following (in sparse order)

• Further improvements to charts and dashboards (we have in plan to add some interesting capabilities like the possibility to define quick filters in dashboard, stay tuned!)
• Further improvements to the TOC drag&drop capabilities and settings
• Support for multiple map projections (expected in next major release 2019.03.00 of MapStore)
• Vector Tiles and MapBox Style support

Stay tuned for additional news on the next features!

If you are interested in learning about how we can help you achieving your goals with open source products like GeoServer, MapStore, GeoNode and GeoNetwork through our Enterprise Support Services and GeoServer Deployment Warranty offerings, feel free to contact us!

Dear All, we are proud to announce that GeoSolutions will be present at the INSPIRE Helsinki 2019 Event which will be held in Helsinki from 22nd to 24th of October 2019.

GeoSolutions will be present with its INSPIRE Expert Nuno Oliveira and we will be happy to talk to you about our open source products, like GeoServer, Mapstore, GeoNode and GeoNetwork, as well as about our Enterprise Support Services and GeoServer Deployment Warranty offerings.

Our INSPIRE & GeoServer expert Nuno Oliveira is going to hold a workshop on GeoServer for INSPIRE, info below:

• INSPIRE, WFS3 and HALE Support in GeoServer: where are we?, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 from 9:00 to 12:30, Lounge Room

• OGC ELFIE - Environmental Linked Features Interoperability Experiment, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 from 17:00 to 18:30, Lounge Room

If you are interested in learning about how we can help you achieving your goals with our Open Source products and professional services, make sure to visit us and talk to Nuno, he is a nice guy :).

See you in Helsinki!

Dear Reader,

we are putting together in this post all presentations that were given by our staff during this year FOSS4G in Bucharest, Romania.

Here is the complete list. Enjoy!

If you are interested in learning about how we can help you achieving your goals with open source products like GeoServer, Mapstore, GeoNode and GeoNetwork through our Enterprise Support Services offer, feel free to contact us!