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GeoServer presentation during SDI Days 2013

Dear All,GeoSolutions has been invited last week to the 2013 edition of the SDI Days which took place on th 26th and 27th of September in Sibenik, Croatia.The conference was organized by The State Geodetic Administration Croatia, the Joint Research Centre - Institute for Environment and Sustainability and the Croatian Chamber of Chartered Geodetic Engineers. The SDI days 2013 focused:on 26th September INSPIRE and integrated land & water management scientific workshopon 27th September 5th NSDI and INSPIRE day.Simone Giannecchini and Eleonora Fontana were invited to give a talk about current status and future developments in GeoServer which is a mature building block for creating...

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Developer’s Corner: MapStore 1.3.0 released!

We are proud to announce the MapStore 1.3.0 release.This is the latest official release of MapStore, the simple and intuitive way to create, save and share maps.MapStore is based on the GeoExplorer Open Source framework and is licensed under the GPL license.You can get MapStore as:generic binarygeonetwork integrated binarywindows installergeonetwork integrated windows installerHere is a list of the most important improvements included in this release: Update ExtJS and OpenLayers to 3.4.1.1 and 2.13.1 versions Allow multiple plugin instances, allow overriding of default plugin configurationGeoLocations MenuMain Toolbar Improvements Many additional bugfixes If you need further info look at the complete list of included issues.With MapStore you...

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Saving the world one application at a time: FAO Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems Database

At GeoSolutions we believe that success stories about important organizations and Open Source Software should be openly shared and they can be used as a measure of OSS success in the formal enterprise environment (but you should alreay know this ;)).  In this blog post we are going to quickly introduce some work we have done for the  Fishery and Aqualture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN).The FAO Fishery and Aqualture Department, specifically the FIGIS group; is involved in many efforts geared towards the conservation of the marine ecosystem and GeoSolutions is honored to work with them on some of the mapping applications they need...

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Developer’s Corner: Advanced usage of Geoserver Print Plugin

Dear all,recently we used the Geoserver Printing Module to implement a pdf printing service for a customer application that had some compelling requirements such as:the map should be printed at the higher resolution possible, also with big paper size formats, in a resonable amount of timethe printing should include both static content (frames, text, logos) and dynamic content (title and other parameters entered by the user or depending on the current application status)the printing should include a custom legend whose content is driven by the applicationWhat we discovered is that the Geoserver printing module (thanks to the underlying MapFish print module) is a perfect tool to get...

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Meet GeoSolutions at the INSPIRE Conference 2013 in Florence!

Dear All,we are proud to announce that GeoSolutions is sponsoring the INSPIRE Conference 2013 which we'll be held in Florence from Sunday 23rd to Thursday 27th June (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 2 workshops about our products:Hands - On Introduction To Create Mash - Ups For INSPIRE Services With MapStore, Sunday, the...

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