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Saving the world one application at a time: FAO Aquatic Species Viewer

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: GeoServer Stunning image quality + max compression rate = New PNG8 quantizer is served!

Hi everybody,in this blog we want to introduce the new GeoServer PNG8 quantizer.PNG8 is a shorthand for PNG 8bit, that is, a PNG image that uses a fixed palette of 256 (or less) colors and can thus encode each pixel with just one byte.The interest in the format comes from its smaller size, often between 2 and 3 times smaller than the equivalent 24bit PNG image. Smaller size means:proportional size cut in tile cache storage, which normally means cutting away several GB if not TB (depending on the amount of seending and the size of the cached geographic area)shorter transfer...

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Dynamic WMS styling with GeoServer: SLD and library mode

Hi all,today I want to delve a bit in the dynamic styling abilities that GeoServer provides.GeoServer fully supports a client's ability to specify a custom SLD 1.0 style instead of a built-in named style, this can be done in different ways:adding a reference to a internet accessible sld file via the &sld=url parameterspecifying the full SLD, url-encoded, in the request URL via the SLD_BODY=fullStyleDefinitionHere parameter POST-ing a GetMap XML document, as defined by the SLD 1.0 spec POST-ing the usual GET request, where each KVP parameter is sent over as a form parameter (this is a GeoServer extension)Let's have a...

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State of GeoServer presentation from FOSS4G-NA

Dear all,we wanted share the slides from another presentation that Andrea Aime and Justin Deoliveira gave recently at the FOSS4G North America conference about the state of GeoServer.Here below you have the complete presentation.State of GeoServer at FOSS4G-NAView more presentations from GeoSolutions.The GeoSolutions team,

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Unveiling upcoming GeoServer 2.2 release

Dear all,we have created this post to share the slides from the presentation that Andrea Aime and Justin de Oliveira gave recently at the FOSS4G North America conference about the new feature that will be available in the upcoming 2.2 release of the GeoServer.A lot of work has been performed since the first beta release of the 2.1 release, almost 2 years ago, quickly summarising some of the most interesting ones we can enumerate:improved WPSrendering transformation, to perform transformation on-the-fly during renderingimproved security subsystemsupport for bigtiffsupport for oracle georastersupport for TIME and ELEVATION in WMS and WCSand many more.For a...

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