Print Composer for MapStore and GeoNode: the crowdfunding campaign is open

Dear Reader,

Printing in MapStore and GeoNode still relies on an ageing integration with MapFish Print 2, built around a single map. Dashboards, GeoStories and multi-page documents cannot be printed properly.

This year we built a working prototype of a new Print Composer: design the page, preview it live, print it. Maps, dashboards, GeoStories and atlases with one page per feature, rendered by a new open-source print engine built on GeoTools. You can see it in action in the 5-minute demo.

Atlas mode: one layout, one page per feature. Watch the full demo on YouTube.

Now we want to bring it to production, and we have opened a crowdfunding campaign to do it. GeoSolutions funds part of the work with its own resources, and we are asking the organisations that use MapStore and GeoNode to fund the rest, the same way GeoServer 3 was funded. Everything is released as open source in MapStore and GeoNode.

How it works

• Goal €120,000, GeoSolutions will fund €120,000 out of his own pocket.  Contributions start at €500, with no fixed levels.
• Nothing is charged now. Work starts progressively as funding is committed, and we send the invoice when the work starts.
• Every contributor gets early access to the builds and a channel to give feedback on the design.
• Already a GeoSolutions customer? Talk to your GeoSolutions contact and we will agree your contribution privately.
• Pledges close on 31 March 2027.

Features, roadmap, FAQ and the pledge form are on the campaign page: Print Composer for MapStore and GeoNode. Questions, or want a walkthrough? Write to info@geosolutionsgroup.com.

The GeoSolutions team,

See also

• Print Composer crowdfunding campaign
• Print Composer demo on YouTube
• MapStore Corporate Page
• GeoNode Corporate Page