GeoTools

WMS cascading in latest GeoServer

One of the new exciting features in the GeoServer 2.1 series is WMS cascading.For those that are not familiar with it, cascading allows to expose layers coming from other WMS servers as if they were local layers. This provides for some interesting advantages:Clients connecting to your SDI need to care about less points of origin, which might be important for high security networksIt is now possible to ask for maps in formats not supported by the original server, or to reproject the maps in projections not supported by the original server (GeoServer supports out of the box almost 5000 different coordinate...

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Latest on JPEG2000 Improved Support for the Java world

Dear all,We would like to take the occasion to describe more in details some improvements that were implemented with the ImageI/O-Ext 1.0.8 release (which is now supported by GeoServer 2.0.2, 2.7.x and GeoTools 2.6.4 and 2.7.x) as well as with the previous ones.Reader ImprovementsVarious improvements have been implemented for the JPEG2000 Kakadu reader in order to enhance its speed and robustness:More checks on stripe decompressionImproved Warning Messages at startupImproved subsampling factor computation Writer ImprovementsVarious improvements have been implemented for the JPEG2000 Kakadu writer in order to enhance support for very large imagery writing in terms of more control options as well...

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ImageI/O-Ext 1.0.7 released

Dear all,GeoSolutions is pleased to announce the ImageI/O-Ext 1.0.7 release.Some minor changes with respect to 1.0.6-1:- improvements on gdal support core classes when reading bands at once (for datatypes not BYTE)- HastTable replaced with HashMap on kakadu plugin.This release still leverage on GDAL 1.4.5, therefore no changes are required on native libraries with respect to version 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.6-1.Released artifacts have been deployed on the GeoSolutions maven repository, as well as on the OSGEO one.Regards,the GeoSolutions Team

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BigTiff support ready in ImageIO-Ext trunk

Dear all,we are pleased to announce that ImageI/O-Ext 1.1.x (trunk) now supports BigTIFF!We have tagged a 1.1M06-07-2010 version which contains it and we have also deployed maven artifacts for the snapshots as well as the above mentioned tag inside our maven repository:  http:// maven.geo-solutions.itTests and feedbacks are very welcome.It is worth to point out that soon GeoServer trunk and GeoTools trunk will be able to access bigtiff as well!  Regards,the GeoSolutions team.

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Introducing GeoSolutions Enterprise Services

GeoSolutions is proud to offer four levels of enterprise support services centered on the GeoServer platform to help organizations with building enterprise-class Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), integrating and tuning best-of-breed Open Source geospatial frameworks, into what we call the OpenSDI suite.Thanks to its extensive experience in building and supporting enterprise class geospatial infrastructures, GeoSolutions will provide your organization with an outstanding level of support through the full project lifecycle for a successful and stress-free deployment.If your organization was refraining from adopting Open Source software in the enterprise due to lack of professional support, we are here to help. Start investing on features...

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