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(CAS + LDAP + FTP + LifeRay) ^ GeoSolutions = Enteprise Portal

Blog ‐ Posted on 23.11.2010 by simone giannecchini

Recently GeoSolutions has developed for one our biggest clients their new web portal . The long term goal was to rationalize and concentrate all users and applications management in a single entry point, providing them with all the functionalities of a classic web portal.Use Case and RequirementsThe development and deployment of the whole architecture was challenging due to the strict functional and non-functional requirements they put forward.The use case is quite complex since our client periodically conducts experiments at sea, collaborating with other agencies and research centres, where large amounts of data are collected and stored. Moreover, security is a crucial...

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GeoServer workshop available for free!

Blog ‐ Posted on 22.11.2010 by simone giannecchini

Dear All,a quick post to just let you know that GeoSolutions is sharing an introductory workshop on GeoServer 2.0.The material comprises of:a light Ubuntu-based ISOa preconfigured GeoServer data directory containing data kindly donated by the Municipality of Prato in Italythe workshop itself, as a set of html filesThe ISO file can be run either using Virtual Box or the VMWare Player. As an alternative you can burn it on a CD and you can use it as a Live Ubuntu or install it on your system.Once you get it up and running, the installation contains:An instance of the GeoServer 2.0.x stable nightly with a subset...

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GeoSolutions helps GeoServer WPS going mainstream

Blog ‐ Posted on 15.11.2010 by simone giannecchini

GeoSolutions is funding Andrea Aime's time to bring the GeoServer Web Processing Service (WPS) module to become an officially supported extension. A proposal has been submitted and is being voted on by the Project Steering Committe; you can track the progress here.For those who have no idea of what WPS means I can cite part of the description I have found in wikipedia, which is very informative:"The (WPS) is designed to standardize the way that GIS calculations are made available to the Internet. WPS can describe any calculation (i.e. process) including all of its inputs and outputs, and trigger its...

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SimpleFeatureService: yet another attempt to simplify vector data dissemination – Part I

Blog ‐ Posted on 11.11.2010 by simone giannecchini

In the current web gis world the most common standard protocol to disseminate vector data is the OGC Web Feature Service (WFS). While the protocol is fine, it has a number of shortcomings if we focus on the simple features dissemination case:the protocol is complex, writing a client is often hard and error prone, same goes for implementing a new WFS serverthe axis order issue makes it difficult, even today, to know what the axis order of the data returned by a WFS isusage of GML implies there are many ways to present the same information or the same geometry...

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GeoSolutions ad ASITA 2010

Blog ‐ Posted on 08.11.2010 by simone giannecchini

GeoSolutions sara' presente nella giornata di mercoledi 10 Novembre 2010 alla 14esima conferenza nazionale ASITA  che si terrà a Brescia dal 9 al 12 Novembre 2010. Simone Giannecchini, fondatore di GeoSolutions, sarà presente per visitare alcuni dei nostri clienti e sarà disponibile per tutto il giorno per eventuali approfondimenti sulle nostre attività. Chi volesse, puo' contattarci per esprimere il suo interesse qui.Il team di GeoSolutions.

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