Developer’s Corner: Improving Printing for GeoServer – Part 2

Dear all,recently we worked on the MapFish print module used by the Geoserver Printing Module to improve it in several ways, in particular for what concerns legends printing, but not limited to that.In this post we would like to share the improvements we made, so that they can be useful to other Geoserver printing module users.Mapfish print module 2.0First of all, we did all our improvements on a 2.0.x version of the MapFish print module, while the official Geoserver Printing Module is still stuck on the 1.2 version.The good news is that the 2.0-SNAPSHOT version seems to work perfectly with the current stable release of Geoserver, and only one jar...

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Developer’s Corner: Bridging CSS and SLD unit of measure treatment in GeoServer

Hi,in this blog we are introducing some work with did to bridge the unit of measure treatment in SLD and CSS. The beginning of the blog is a bit technical, so if you want to just get the news, skip towards the map screenshots.Unit of measure treatment in CSS is rather straightforward, every size is in pixel, unless otherwise specified by appending a unit of measure to it. In GeoServer geospatial CSS design there are three unit of measure, meter (m), feet (ft) and pixels (px), for example, say we want to have a circular mark, whose size is 2...

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