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Upcoming Webinar: Best Practices for Optimizing Performance with GeoServer

Blog, News ‐ Posted on 28.05.2020 by simone giannecchini

Dear Reader, One of the main goals of GeoSolutions customers is to improve performance of their geospatial server. We have been improving open source tools (e.g. GeoServer and GeoWebCache) to allow for proper dissemination of large geospatial datasets in private and public cloud environments. In this post, I highlight some tricks and tips to improve performance and I also cordially invite you to a webinar on June 10th 11:00-12:00 EDT / 15:00 GMT, led by our GeoServer lead developer Andrea Aime. Check other time zones here.  We want to enable a client to play with maps backed by millions of geometries or...

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Upcoming Free Webinar: What’s new in GeoServer 2.17?

Blog, News ‐ Posted on 03.05.2020 by simone giannecchini

Dear Reader, As most of you readers are aware, GeoServer is a very  popular open source tool to publish geospatial data. We, at GeoSolutions, are very fortunate to have in our team key code contributors, as well as, customers that support the advancement of GeoServer for the greater benefit of the geospatial community. Version 2.17 was released a week ago. A blog with detailed information is available at the GeoServer blog. In this post, I highlight some new functionality and invite you to a webinar on May 11th to learn more about the release from our GeoServer lead developer, Andrea Aime, The GeoServer 2.17 release comes with many interesting...

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Upcoming Free Webinar: Serving OSM Data with GeoServer – Advanced Styling

Blog, News ‐ Posted on 14.04.2020 by simone giannecchini

Dear Reader, Open Street Map (OSM) is a popular collaboration mapping project that has over 2 million registered users. It provides the capability to update, using the power of crowdsourcing, critical information that can help decision makers and citizens to make day-to-day decisions. For example, the Humanitarian Open Street (HOT) Team is coordinating updating the status of hospitals, times that businesses are operating, and other useful data, during the COVID-19 outbreak. It is safe to say that OSM data is successfully used as base maps in a wide variety of tools and services. When it comes to using OSM data in our...

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GeoServer OSM styles, full data directory available

Blog, News ‐ Posted on 16.03.2020 by Andrea Aime

Our GeoServer technical lead, Andrea Aime, presented, during FOSS4G 2019, Bucharest, Standing up an OpenStreeMap clone with GeoServer. The presentation, also available as a video, introduces the audience to the machinery supporting the OSM like map available in the GeoServer home page. That's a large body of work, which improved GeoServer CSS styling, added new rendering engine features, as well as improved map rendering performance for complex maps. You can also have a look at it in our MapStore client embedded here below. Some static  example outputs are reported below. Back at the time, we released the set of CSS styles backing the...

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MapStore Release 2020.01.00

MapStore Release 2020.01.00

Blog, News ‐ Posted on 10.02.2020 by Tobia Di Pisa

Dear Reader, We are pleased to announce the release 2020.01.00 of MapStore, our flagship Open Source WebGIS product. The full list of changes for this release can be found here, but the most interesting ones are listed below: Background selector: now users with write permissions to the map can edit background layers from the user interface Drag and drop improved on TOC: now drag and drop works also between different groups Edit map permission directly from the map viewer: now you can edit map permission when creating a new map, not only from home Additional map viewer query parameters: you can now load MapStore by dynamically dispatching...

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