GeoServer

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

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

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

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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Meet GeoSolutions at the INSPIRE Conference 2013 in Florence!

Dear All,we are proud to announce that GeoSolutions is sponsoring the INSPIRE Conference 2013 which we'll be held in Florence from Sunday 23rd to Thursday 27th June (you can get more information at this link).GeoSolutions will be present with its own booth therefore we'll be happy to talk to you about our open source products, like GeoServer and Mapstore, as well as about our Enterprise Support Services. Moreover, looking at the program, we would like to remind you that we are also giving 2 workshops about our products:Hands - On Introduction To Create Mash - Ups For INSPIRE Services With MapStore, Sunday, the...

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Developer’s Corner: GeoServer-Manager 1.5.2 released

Dear All,this short blog post is for sharing with you that we just released GeoServer-Manager version 1.5.2.Here's a list of most important changes:#62 Support for MetadataLinkInfo encoder / decoder#65 Support for SQL View FeatureType - VirtualTable metadata encoder/decoder#71 Missing dbtype connection Parameter in GSOracleNGDatastoreEncoder#77 Missing support for JP2K#80 Considering several layers with the same nameWe have also updated the documentation with examples on how to use the new methods.This version of GeoServer-Manager is compatible with GeoServer 2.2 and GeoServer 2.3.If you have questions or if you just want to talk to us about the using the library in your project, please, subscribe to the mailing list here. In any case, do not...

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