GeoServer

Developer’s Corner: Active Directory based security in GeoServer through LDAP

Dear all,as you may already know, the GeoServer security subsystem, based on the Spring Security framework, is quite flexible and configurable to allow you to integrate GeoServer into your existing security infrastructure.For example, by default, it allows usage of the most known authentication mechanisms and sources, such as HTTP Basic Authentication, X509 certificates, J2EE container controlled security, form based security and so on.For more information on the GeoServer security subsystem you can take a look at the related documentation, here and here.Among the available authentication sources, the LDAP choice is one of the most important, because many enterprise authentication services are based on...

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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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OpenDataNetwork.it: CKAN and GeoNetwork for an integrated Open Data Portal

Dear All, we wanted to talk briefly about the OpenDataNetwork Project which is a joint project promoted by a few Public Administration located in the Italian Region of Tuscany, namely: County of Florence County of Prato County of Pistoia Arno River Basin Authority which have decided to create a federated infrastructure for the publication of their data (geospatial as well as alphanumeric) as OpenData. The Project has drawn its essence from the experience accumulated during the C.E.R.C.O. project which aimed at creating a federated Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the dissemination of geospatial data as Open Data for a number of Public...

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GeoSolutions presenting GeoServer for serving Meteorological Data at ECMWF

Dear All,a couple of weeks ago we have been invited to ECMFW for the MOS14 Workshop to give a presentation on the current and future capabilities of GeoServer for serving Metereological and Oceanographic data.Here below you can find the presentation that was given by Simone Giannecchini. In addition to an in-depth discussion about GeoServer capabilities a few real-world use cases area also presented. Using GeoServer for spatio-temporal data management with examples for MetOc and remote sensing from GeoSolutions If you'd like to know more about what you could achieve with GeoServer, do not hesitate and get in touch with us. If you need professional services to get...

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