Our GeoServer technical lead, Andrea Aime, presented, during FOSS4G 2019, Bucharest, Standing up an OpenStreeMap clone with GeoServer.

The presentation, also available as a video, introduces the audience to the machinery supporting the OSM like map available in the GeoServer home page. That's a large body of work, which improved GeoServer CSS styling, added new rendering engine features, as well as improved map rendering performance for complex maps.

You can also have a look at it in our MapStore client embedded here below.

Back at the time, we released the set of CSS styles backing the map, but setting up of the data sources was left as a "reader's exercise".

Today, thanks to the sponsoring provided by Open Geo Groep and Envinet, we release a full data directory, including both the low resolution datasets, the GeoServer setup, and instructions on how to load the high resolution OSM data using imposm, so that you can get quickly up and running!

The data directory is available in the same repository that previously contained only the CSS styles, that is: https://github.com/geosolutions-it/osm-styles

Be the first to try it out locally, and let us know how that goes. The repository is open, the data directory is under a MIT license, so anyone can contribute improvements to it, pull requests are welcomed!

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 Reader,

We are pleased to announce the release 2020.01.00 of MapStore, our flagship Open Source WebGIS product. The full list of changes for this release can be found here, but the most interesting ones are listed below:

• Background selector: now users with write permissions to the map can edit background layers from the user interface
• Drag and drop improved on TOC: now drag and drop works also between different groups
• Edit map permission directly from the map viewer: now you can edit map permission when creating a new map, not only from home
• Additional map viewer query parameters: you can now load MapStore by dynamically dispatching actions like Zoom to extent or triggering the Identify tool for a specific layer in map
• Improvements to the Custom Search Services tool: now you are able to configure MapStore to automatically trigger the Identify tool as soon a search is performed
• Improved documentation: we obviously keep the online documentation updated according to new features and new changes. In this release we did an extensive review of the User Guide
• Other minor enhancements: the complete list of enhancements is available here
• Migration to React 16
• Hardening: various bug fixes have been provided, the complete list is available here

Background Selector

TOC Drag and drop improvement

Further ongoing and future work

For the next releases we have plans to work on the following:

• 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! we have in plan to release it in the next release 2020.01.01)

• Application Contexts and Viewer Composer: an additional interesting feature will make MapStore even more powerful than now. The first quarter of this year will bring the Application Context tool for MapStore that will allow administrators to define multiple viewer contexts in a three steps wizard (expected in next major release 2020.02.00 of MapStore)

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

• Storytelling tool: you will be able to use MapStore to do geospatial storytelling; we named this new tool GeoStory (expected in next major release 2020.02.00 of MapStore

Stay tuned for additional news on the next features! If you want to play with the current release, you can access the live demo here and login with username demo and password 123456.

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!

One of the first actions GeoSolutions USA took was to join USGIF and submit a training proposal to the 2020 GEOINT Symposium, which will take place in Tampa,  April 22-26. Why? Because tools that support open standards are critical to ensure interoperability of GEOINT.

The training titled “Building Interoperable Spatial Data Infrastructures with GeoServer and MapStore”  will take place on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 7:00 AM in room 23. If you attend the training, expect to:

• Learn about GeoServer and its support for WMS, WFS, WMTS, Vector tiles, GeoPackage, new OGC APIs, advance styling and more.
• Learn about MapStore, a slick web and mobile client to view and edit maps, create mashups, create dashboards and map stories.
• Learn about projects that are efficiently using GeoServer and MapStore in production systems in Azure and Amazon clouds.

Will be thrilled to also meet you at our booth 1530 and discuss how we can help you.

If you want further information or if you have questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

Luis

Cari lettori,

GeoSolutions sarà presente alla conferenza italiana sul software geografico e sui dati geografici liberi (FOSS4G-IT 2020) nei giorni dal 18 al 22 Febbraio 2020 a Torino. 

Le giornate del 18 e 19 Febbraio saranno dedicate a workshop introduttivi su vari software tra cui MapStore e GeoNode. Nelle giornate successive (20 e 21 Febbraio) si terrà la conferenza vera e propria, con interventi sui principali progetti in ambito FOSS4G. Infine nella giornata del 22 Febbraio si terranno delle attività specifiche su OpenStreetMap. Il programma completo della conferenza è disponibile a questo link.

GeoSolutions sarà presente con alcune presentazioni e workshop sui propri prodotti Open Source. Di seguito il programma dei nostri workshop e delle nostre presentazioni:

Programma dei workshop:

• Introduction to MapStore, mashups made simple, Aula Albenga, Mercoledì 19/2, 09:00 - 13:00.

• GeoServer, il server Open Source per la gestione interoperabile dei dati geospaziali, Mercoledì 19/2, ore 17:00
• GeoNode, il CMS geospaziale Open Source, Mercoledì 19/2, ore 17:15

Dear All, we are proud to announce that GeoSolutions is exhibiting at the INSPIRE Conference 2020 which will be held in Dubrovnik (Croatia) from 12 to 15 of May 2020.

GeoSolutions will be present at the exhibition with our INSPIRE & GeoServer expert Nuno Oliveira, therefore we will be happy to talk to you about our open source products GeoServer, Mapstore, GeoNode and GeoNetwork, as well as about our Enterprise Support Services and GeoServer Subscription offerings.

We are going to deliver our beloved workshop on GeoServer for INSPIRE called Publishing INSPIRE services with GeoServer and HALE but we are preparing  an updated version of the workshop to cover the following new topics:

• Using GeoServer isolated workspaces to publish the same complex feature type multiple times.
• Querying complex data using WFS GetFeature operation and stored queries.
• Mapping simple types with multiple cardinality and polymorphic types.
• New available output formats for complex features: GeoJSON and JSON-LD.

We will also participate in the following special sessions, presenting the state of the art in publishing INSPIRE services using GeoServer as well the impact of the new OGC APIs  in new and existing GeoServer based INSPIRE services deployments:

• OGC API - Features, a game changer, we will present: GeoServer OGC API - Features: introduction to the RESTful, schemaless, JSON first download service
• INSPIRE Reference Data – Ready to take off?, we will present: INSPIRE services with GeoServer and HALE, where are we?

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 at our booth.

See you in Dubrovnik!