Saving the world one application at a time: Atlas of Tuna and Billfish Catches

This blog post covers some work we have done to support the FAO Fishery and Acqualture Department, specifically the FIGIS group with information dissemination about catches of Tuna and Billfish over the last 60 years globally. As stated on their website:"... the Atlas presents the global distribution of catches by gear from 1950 to 2010, at 5° latitude by 5° longitude resolution, of those tuna and tuna-like species for which this distribution is generally well known on the global scale. These species consist of the so-called principal market tunas and some billfishes."Using Geoserver, OpenLayers and Ext-JS, we built for them a simplfied viewer that allow users to access dynamically their statistics and...

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Developer’s Corner: Authenticating dummy clients in GeoServer

In this blog post we'll introduce a simple authentication method we developed for GeoServer that allows to deal with security unaware clients.GeoServer can be configured to force a user to authenticate, either directly when trying to access the capabilities document (challenge mode) or when trying to access a protected resource (mixed mode). GeoServer will send a "http basic authentication" challenge, that will force browsers to show up the "username/password" authentication dialog, and make other desktop application ask and send over the user credentials.There are surely more secure means to authenticate a user, yet basic http authentication is the minimum common...

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Saving the world one application at a time: FAO Regional Fishery Bodies Viewer

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.  In this blog post we are going to quickly introduce some work we have done for the  Fishery and Acqualture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN).The FAO Fishery and Acqualture 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...

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GeoSolutions Enterprise Services: Open Source meets Enterprise

Are you looking for high-end professional support to help you with the creation of a SDI based on Open Source frameworks?Are you thinking about an infrastructure to support the OpenData and are you wondering if a proprietary software is the best choice?Are you tired of spending all your budget for licenses without creating the infrastructure you need?Would you like to integrate a proprietary SDI with an Open Source software?GeoSolutions can help you! The GeoSolutions  Enterprises Plans offer the possibility for creating an Enterprise SDI based on the best Open Source frameworks as GeoServer, GeoNetwork and MapStore.Thanks to GeoSolutions it is easy to...

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Developer’s Corner: ImageIO-Ext 1.1.3 Release is available

Dear all,We would like to take the occasion to introduce the ImageI/O-Ext 1.1.3 release (which is now supported by GeoServer 2.1.x, 2.2.x and GeoTools 2.7.x and 8.x.Various improvements have been implemented for the GDAL framework in order to enhance its speed and robustness:Tested with GDAL 1.7.3 and 1.8.1 on all Linux32/linux64/win32/win64More aggressive caching of GDAL Dataset resulting in more speedLess synchronization around GDAL calls resulting in more scalabilityArtifacts ReleasedArtifacts for Imageio-Ext have been deployed on the GeoSolutions maven repository, as well as on the OSGEO one.The GeoSolutions team,

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