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BigTiff support in GeoTools/GeoServer (Alpha testers needed)

Dear all, at GeoSolutions we have recently worked on support for the BigTiff format, which basically consists of an extension of the Tiff format to support raster larger than 4 Gigs. Work is based on an ImageIO plugin for the ImageIO-Ext project, but this will be incorporated into GeoTools and GeoServer.Long story short, we are looking for alpha testers, since the impact of the change is rather large for the tiff reader/writer, therefore we would like to have as much feedback/testing as possible prior to port this work to GeoTools/GeoServer. If you are interested in helping us with testing with...

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GeoSolutions’ New Website Launched

Dear all,at GeoSolutions we have launched our new website:  new layout, renewed graphics and design, more information about selected projects we have worked on.Enjoy,Simone.

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Automatic ImagePyramid import for GeoServer

Lately a new interesting feature has been added to the GeoServer, the possibility to automagically (yeah, it's not a typo) import raster pyramids created with gdal_retile and serve them as WMS/WCS layers.Andrea Aime has created a nice tutorial (see here), that should guide you through the basic steps for building a raster pyramid and then ingesting it into GeoServer.It is worth to point out that, to try this work out, you need to:Use a GeoServer nightly buildInstall the ImagePyramid extensionInstall fwtools or build GDAL on your platform of choice.Enjoy,Simone.

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(FIX) GDAL extension not working with GeoServer’s Windows service wrapper

Today, we have investigated the issue reported by several users on the GeoServer's mailing list about being unable to get the GDAL-ImageI/O-Ext extension to work when GeoServer runs as a service on Windows.Deploying the GDAL ImageI/O-Ext native libraries in a location referred by the PATH environment variable (like, as an instance, your JDK/bin folder) allows GeoServer to successfully recognize them when invoked via the start.bat script. However, this does not seem to work when running GeoServer as a service on Windows. As a result, during the service startup, GeoServer log reports this worrysome message:it.geosolutions.imageio.gdalframework.GDALUtilities loadGDALWARNING: Native library load failed.java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no...

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Geoserver continuous map wrapping!

Recently one of our clients has provided us with the funding to address an issue with the Geoserver rendering core module that was preventing us from drawing polygons crossing the dateline change, or, to put it another way, to be able to have maps that were wrapping like continuous wrapped maps from Google.Our specific use case is also quite challenging on its own since we need to use a projection in which the dateline change has been moved away from the usual -180/+180 by using a non standard central meridianThe result, prior to the work described here, does not look...

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