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Vote for GeoSolutions’ workshops at FOSS4G 2013!

Blog ‐ Posted on 31.05.2013 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,as you might know there is going to be additional room for workshops during this year's FOSS4G, a community selection process in taking place right now therefore we would like to help you out with the decision by reporting our proposals here below:SpatioTemporal data handling with GeoServer: an introduction with examples for MetOc and Remote Sensing data for WMS and WCS.Introduction to high availability clusters with GeoServer and GeoWebCache: this workshop will provide an introduction to setting up high availability clusters for OGC services using GeoServer and GeoWebCache.Introduction to MapStore, mashups made simple: this workshop will provide an introduction...

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Fun with MapStore: Italian UNESCO Sites as OpenData

Blog ‐ Posted on 20.05.2013 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,there days the Italian UNESCO Sites of interests have been released as OpenData via this portal (NOTICE; we were not involved :)).The data can be downloaded, there are WMS and WFS end endpoints available (using GeoServer), and there is a small webgis based on OpenLayers (which could actually be improved a litlle bit ;) ).Well, OpenData + Open Services, this is really nice so I thought I could share a map I created with the cloud version of MapStore the same data with proper querying capabilities and so on.So there you go, here below you can find a pretty simple map...

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GeoSolutions participates at the GeoSpatial World Forum 2013 in Rotterdam

Blog ‐ Posted on 13.05.2013 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,we'd like to announce that GeoSolutions will be present at the GeoSpatial World Forum Conference which will be held in Rotterdam between the 13th amd 16th of May 2013.GeoSolutions will be represented by its founder and director Ing. Simone Giannecchini as well as by its Director of Biz Dev & Sales Dott. Eleonora Fontana, In particular Simone Giannecchini will speak on the 16th during the Open Source session as well as during the session focused on SME and INSPIRE.If you are at the conference and you'd like to network with us to talk about we could build a collaboration leveraging on...

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Developer’s Corner: MapStore 1.2.0 released!

Blog ‐ Posted on 03.05.2013 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,we are proud to announce that we just released MapStore version 1.2.0.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.This new version is available in 4 different flavours:generic binarygeonetwork integrated binarywindows installergeonetwork integrated windows installerHere is a list of the most important improvements included in this release:added GeoNetwork  integrationadded installer for Windows systemsadded customPanels configuration option made easier to install and customize printing moduleadded basic auth and cookies support to RingoJS debug proxyrefactored and enhanced xmlJsonTranslate (now servicebox)added...

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Real World Use Cases: MapStore for the MuseiD Portal, the Italian Digital Museums initiative

Blog ‐ Posted on 29.04.2013 by simone giannecchini

Dear Readers,in this post we would like to talk to you about the work we performed to add mapping capabilities to the MuseiD Portal that has been developed for the Italian "Ministero dei Beni Culturali" (the department of the Italian Government that looks after our Cultural Heritage) to allow users (technical and non-technical) to search for and get information about masterpieces of art belonging to many different collections from all over Italy. More information here.The initiative aims to create an infrastructure to gather, index, aggregate and manage metadata from italian musems describing the manufacts they are responsible for. The portal...

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