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Developer’s Corner: MapStore 1.3.0 released!

Blog ‐ Posted on 18.09.2013 by simone giannecchini

We are proud to announce the MapStore 1.3.0 release.This is the latest official release of MapStore, the simple and intuitive way to create, save and share maps.MapStore is based on the GeoExplorer Open Source framework and is licensed under the GPL license.You can get MapStore as:generic binarygeonetwork integrated binarywindows installergeonetwork integrated windows installerHere is a list of the most important improvements included in this release: Update ExtJS and OpenLayers to 3.4.1.1 and 2.13.1 versions Allow multiple plugin instances, allow overriding of default plugin configurationGeoLocations MenuMain Toolbar Improvements Many additional bugfixes If you need further info look at the complete list of included issues.With MapStore you...

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Meet us at the FOSS4G 2013

Blog ‐ Posted on 16.09.2013 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,GeoSolutions is proud to announce its participation as silver sponsor to the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 2013 conference, being held September 17th - 21st, 2013, at the East Midlands conference center in Nottingham, UK.Here below you can find the detailed schedule of our workshops and presentations during the conference.WorkshopsWednesday, the 18th, 2013OGC services with GeoServer: from journeyman to master: Trent B16 -  9:30 a.m. to  6 p.m.This workshop will provide a introduction to OGC services implementation with GeoServer and GeoWebCache, covering the basics and moving forward to more advanced topics.Thursday, the 19th, 2013SpatioTemporal data handling with GeoServer: Sir Clive Granger Building: B29 A - 2...

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Saving the world one application at a time: FAO Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems Database

Blog ‐ Posted on 11.09.2013 by simone giannecchini

At GeoSolutions we believe that success stories about important organizations and Open Source Software should be openly shared and they can be used as a measure of OSS success in the formal enterprise environment (but you should alreay know this ;)).  In this blog post we are going to quickly introduce some work we have done for the  Fishery and Aqualture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN).The FAO Fishery and Aqualture Department, specifically the FIGIS group; is involved in many efforts geared towards the conservation of the marine ecosystem and GeoSolutions is honored to work with them on some of the mapping applications they need...

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Developer’s Corner: Advanced usage of Geoserver Print Plugin

Blog ‐ Posted on 19.08.2013 by simone giannecchini

Dear all,recently we used the Geoserver Printing Module to implement a pdf printing service for a customer application that had some compelling requirements such as:the map should be printed at the higher resolution possible, also with big paper size formats, in a resonable amount of timethe printing should include both static content (frames, text, logos) and dynamic content (title and other parameters entered by the user or depending on the current application status)the printing should include a custom legend whose content is driven by the applicationWhat we discovered is that the Geoserver printing module (thanks to the underlying MapFish print module) is a perfect tool to get...

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Introducing GeoServer Enterprise

Blog ‐ Posted on 01.07.2013 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,we are happy to announce the creation of the GeoServer Enterprise project which has been developed by GeoSolutions leveraging on the Community version of GeoServer to provide long term support releases. Superior Stability & Long Term Support ReleasesGeoServer has recently adopted a Time Boxed Release model that results in a new major release every six months (and a bug fix release of the current stable series every month).This is following closely the Release Early, Release Often  Open Source Mantra, and it's required to avoid piling up too many new features in major releases (past difficulties to release a new major were due to...

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