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Developer’s Corner: Turning GeoServer into an ImageServer

Blog ‐ Posted on 23.05.2011 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,we would like to briefly talk about some of the lastest developments we have performed at GeoSolutions in order to turn GeoServer into an ImageServer. So far GeoServer has not been able to publish single non georeferenced images as WMS layers, it always required a valid EPSG for specifying a well-known geospatial coordinate reference system. Lately, we have been working with OpenGeo on an application whose goal was to allow users to view non-georeferenced images through a WebGis based on OpenLayers. We decided to take the risk to modify the GeoServer and allow it to serve pure imagery via...

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GeoServer upgraded to 2.0.3 release on Standing Cloud!

Blog ‐ Posted on 17.05.2011 by simone giannecchini

GeoSolutions is pleased to announce that GeoServer has been upgraded from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3 (check the announcement for  2.0.3) on the Standing Cloud infrastructure. Notice that we have GeoServer 2.1 series on the radar for the next round of upgrades.Standing Cloud provides simple, powerful, services that make it fast and easy to run open source applications in the cloud allowing users to focus on putting applications at work in the cloud rather than worrying about the servers that run them.  Standing Cloud makes it point-and-click easy to deploy and manage applications on your cloud of choice since it  provides instant access to host applications...

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Developer’s Corner: GeoServer-Manager, super-simple Java client library for GeoServer

Blog ‐ Posted on 11.05.2011 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,we just wanted to spend a few words about a Java library we have just released under the MIT license for talking to the GeoServer REST interface. We have named this library GeoServer-Manager (yeah, a lot of brainstorming behind that name, really...).Basically the goal of this library is to provide a simple yet usable way to interface a Java application with the GeoServer that would actually ease the work of the developers hiding away from them the relative complexity of the GeoServer REST interface without introducing a complex communication layer. Here you have some basic facts about the library: minimum set of external dependencies, namely...

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GeoServer in da cloud!

Blog ‐ Posted on 28.03.2011 by simone giannecchini

GeoSolutions is pleased to announce that GeoServer is now available on the Standing Cloud infrastructure.Standing Cloud provides simple, powerful, services that make it fast and easy to run open source applications in the cloud allowing users to focus on putting applications at work in the cloud rather than worrying about the servers that run them.  Standing Cloud makes it point-and-click easy to deploy and manage applications on your cloud of choice since it  provides instant access to host applications on many cloud providers. Focus on portability ensures no providers lock-in which means that moving applications to a different cloud provider with...

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Developer’s corner: adding two global equal area projections to GeoTools/GeoServer

Blog ‐ Posted on 07.03.2011 by simone giannecchini

Recently we had the pleasure to implement two new map projections for GeoTools/Geoserver: the Eckert IV projection, and the Mollweide projection.Both projections happen to be equal area projections.These projections are commonly used in atlases to represent the whole world, as they don't alter the relative proportions of countries and continents.This is actually an important feature missing from the common Google/Bing/Yahoo maps. They are all using a close relative of the Mercator projection, which greatly exaggerates the size of all countries at high latitude (for example, Greenland and Antarctica look a lot bigger than they actually are).Compare that with Eckert IV,...

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