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Animate your maps with GeoServer Animator Tool

In this blog post we'd like to introduce you to a new GeoServer feature, the WMS animator.The animator follows in the footsteps of the WMS reflector, allowing a client to build an animated map with a relatively compact syntax.An animation is built as a set of frames, and each frame is a separate WMS GetMap call, similar to the others in the set, but with a different value in one of the parameters.The animator allows you to specify the parameter that will vary and its value via the aparam and avalues request parameter.For example, let's say we have a dataset...

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GeoServer News: Hiding layers from the capabilities document

Hi all,in this blog post we would like to talk about a new functionality that we has just introduced in GeoServer, the layer "advertised" flag.As you know, ignoring security settings for the moment, all enabled layers configured in GeoServer are made available though all the OGC services for which they make sense: vector layers are published automatically to WMS and WFS, raster layers to WMS and WCS.This is a fine default behavior, but in some cases one would like that the layer was there, but without making the layer known to the general public. Tipical use cases:you want to expose...

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Developers Corner: Support for TIME in GeoServer WMS

Dear All,at GeoSolutions lately we are working on improving support for the TIME dimension in GeoServer.While the work is still ongoing we wanted to share with you a preview of what we are doing, therefore we created the video below.Like this feature? Interested in funding this development? Drop us a line!The GeoSolutions team

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Developers Corner: Improving GeoServer WMS Cascading Support

Hi all,The ability to server WMS layers from a remote WMS server through a Geoserver installation (a.k.a. Cascading WMS) has been one of the latest improvements in Geoserver world in last couple of months. You can read about it more in one of our previous blog, where the basics have been explained already.GeoSolutions team has since been improving the existing state and introduced some new features. A few patches have been created to fix some important issues: Enabling cascading layer to be included in layer groups (GEOS-4273)Make GetFeatureInfo requests work again on cascading servers (GEOS-4301)Make GetFeatureInfo requests work on older...

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Adding TIME support to GeoServer and Mosaic plugin

Ciao a tutti,lately I have been working on adding support in GeoServer for the TIME keyword in GetMap requests by updating the ImageMosaic plugin. The work is being performed on trunk but I might backport to 2.0.x, funding permitting, when it will be ready to roll.The goals are as follows:Ability to select a certain number of granules from the mosaic index based on the actual values of a TIME attributeMake the TIME mechanism transparent if not neededAllow users to update the granule index over time adding new granulesThe scenario I am trying to cope with is the following:I have a...

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