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INSPIRE Support in GeoServer made easy with HALE

Blog ‐ Posted on 26.05.2015 by simone giannecchini

Dear readers, The GeoSolutions team is working to make the job of publishing Inspire compliant data easier, by enabling the usage of a visual schema mappings editor, HALE, to configure the GeoServer app-schema extension. Currently, to publish Inspire compliant data in a specific schema (defined through a set of  xsd files) using GeoServer, the app-schema extension can be used to map a set of existing data sources (for example shapefiles or PostGIS tables in a database) to given xsd schemas. The extension allows to: create Complex Features, required by many Inspire schemas, while common DataStores only enable the use of Simple Features map existing simple...

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Developer’s Corner: JAI-Ext, the Open Source replacement for Oracle JAI

Blog ‐ Posted on 13.04.2015 by simone giannecchini

Dear Readers, it is our pleasure to introduce a new project developed at GeoSolutions, JAI-EXT. JAI-EXT is a project based on the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) API, which is a Java framework for high performances image processing. The main feature of JAI is the ability to process image using deferred execution and tiling, which provide high performances when elaborating input data. Anyway JAI is no more supported by its original developers and has a very restricting license. Since in many of our project we heavily rely on JAI (one for all, GeoServer), at GeoSolutions we decided to embarque in this effort with the JAI-EXT project to completely replace...

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Meet GeoSolutions at the INSPIRE Conference 2015 in Lisbon!

Blog, News ‐ Posted on 18.03.2015 by simone giannecchini

Dear All, we are proud to announce that GeoSolutions is exhibiting at the INSPIRE Conference 2015 which will be held in Lisbon from 25h to 29th of May 2015 (you can get more information at this link). GeoSolutions will be present with its own booth therefore we'll be happy to talk to you about our open source products, like GeoServer and Mapstore, as well as about our Enterprise Support Services. Moreover, looking at the program, we would like to remind you that we are also giving a workshop about GeoServer: Web mapping with OGC services and GeoServer: an introduction, Thursday, 28...

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Color blending and compositing implemented for GeoServer 2.7

Blog ‐ Posted on 02.02.2015 by Andrea Aime

Dear Readers, in this post we want to introduce a new mapping ability available in the GeoServer 2.7.x series: color blending and compositing. The notion of color blending and compositing has been borrowed from the SVG specification, and it's commonly available in image manipulation programs such as Gimp/Photoshop, and has been available, with different types of limitations, in open source GIS software MapServer, QGis and Mapnik. GeoServer own implementation is sort of a sum of the above software abilities, in that it provides both Porter-Duff compositing, useful for masking, color blending, great to more naturally blend multiple colored levels, and base compositing layers, very important to...

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Protecting GeoServer with CAS in an Enterprise environment

Blog ‐ Posted on 20.01.2015 by simone giannecchini

Dear Readers, in this post we will show a practical use case taking advantages from the GeoServer CAS authentication provider extension. A small introduction first. As you may already know, GeoServer ships with an highly configurable security subsystem based on Spring Security. This has been completely re-engineered, providing a more secure and flexible authentication framework. We are not going to provide techincal details of the security framework in this blog, but it is worth to highlight few features which are quite interesting. Multiple authentication mechanisms can be active within GeoServer at a given time. The following figure illustrates the flow...

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