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GeoServer workshop available for free!

Blog ‐ Posted on 22.11.2010 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,a quick post to just let you know that GeoSolutions is sharing an introductory workshop on GeoServer 2.0.The material comprises of:a light Ubuntu-based ISOa preconfigured GeoServer data directory containing data kindly donated by the Municipality of Prato in Italythe workshop itself, as a set of html filesThe ISO file can be run either using Virtual Box or the VMWare Player. As an alternative you can burn it on a CD and you can use it as a Live Ubuntu or install it on your system.Once you get it up and running, the installation contains:An instance of the GeoServer 2.0.x stable nightly with a subset...

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Presentation on GeoServer @ Gfoss Day 2010

Blog ‐ Posted on 16.11.2010 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,a quick blog post to share the presentation Simone Giannecchini is going to give at the Italian GFOSS Day 2010 tomorrow morning about GeoServer.Gfoss 2010View more presentations from GeoSolutions.The GeoSolutions team,

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GeoSolutions helps GeoServer WPS going mainstream

Blog ‐ Posted on 15.11.2010 by simone giannecchini

GeoSolutions is funding Andrea Aime's time to bring the GeoServer Web Processing Service (WPS) module to become an officially supported extension. A proposal has been submitted and is being voted on by the Project Steering Committe; you can track the progress here.For those who have no idea of what WPS means I can cite part of the description I have found in wikipedia, which is very informative:"The (WPS) is designed to standardize the way that GIS calculations are made available to the Internet. WPS can describe any calculation (i.e. process) including all of its inputs and outputs, and trigger its...

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SimpleFeatureService: yet another attempt to simplify vector data dissemination – Part I

Blog ‐ Posted on 11.11.2010 by simone giannecchini

In the current web gis world the most common standard protocol to disseminate vector data is the OGC Web Feature Service (WFS). While the protocol is fine, it has a number of shortcomings if we focus on the simple features dissemination case:the protocol is complex, writing a client is often hard and error prone, same goes for implementing a new WFS serverthe axis order issue makes it difficult, even today, to know what the axis order of the data returned by a WFS isusage of GML implies there are many ways to present the same information or the same geometry...

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WorldFile explained (or at least we tried!)

Blog ‐ Posted on 08.11.2010 by simone giannecchini

There is a lot of confusion around about what world file represents therefore we thought it would have been nice to put together a couple of clarifications.The World FileWorld File is a de-facto standard from early days of ESRI desktop GIS applications. Originally it was composed by at least two files, a raster file, let' say a file.tiff,  and another file (most part of the times called file.wld)  that contains numbers that define the affine transformation between the image and the target spatial reference system. This implicitly means that we are talking about georectified raster data. This wld file is what...

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