OpenSDI

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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Real World Uses Cases: Troubleshooting large GeoServer deployment

Dear All,in this post we would like to describe how we did help one of our clients to troubleshoot its GeoServer and GeoWebCache deployment in order to quickly respond to a tremendous peak in the number of accesses to the geportal sitting in front of this deployment. Unfortunately we cannot name the client or the portal explicitly, all we can say is that we are talking about a nationwide geoportal for an Eastern European country.The data that is served by the system comprises of around 2 TB of raster data (mostly nation-wide ortos) plus another 60 GB of vector data...

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GeoSolutions Enterprise Services: Open Source meets Enterprise

Are you looking for high-end professional support to help you with the creation of a SDI based on Open Source frameworks?Are you thinking about an infrastructure to support the OpenData and are you wondering if a proprietary software is the best choice?Are you tired of spending all your budget for licenses without creating the infrastructure you need?Would you like to integrate a proprietary SDI with an Open Source software?GeoSolutions can help you! The GeoSolutions  Enterprises Plans offer the possibility for creating an Enterprise SDI based on the best Open Source frameworks as GeoServer, GeoNetwork and MapStore.Thanks to GeoSolutions it is easy to...

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Developer’s Corner: ImageIO-Ext 1.1.3 Release is available

Dear all,We would like to take the occasion to introduce the ImageI/O-Ext 1.1.3 release (which is now supported by GeoServer 2.1.x, 2.2.x and GeoTools 2.7.x and 8.x.Various improvements have been implemented for the GDAL framework in order to enhance its speed and robustness:Tested with GDAL 1.7.3 and 1.8.1 on all Linux32/linux64/win32/win64More aggressive caching of GDAL Dataset resulting in more speedLess synchronization around GDAL calls resulting in more scalabilityArtifacts ReleasedArtifacts for Imageio-Ext have been deployed on the GeoSolutions maven repository, as well as on the OSGEO one.The GeoSolutions team,

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Articolo di GeoSolutions su GeoServer ad ASITA 2011

Salve a tutti,con colpevole ritardo, mettiamo a disposizione dei nostri lettori l'articolo presentato alla conferenza ASITA dell'anno scorso.Una versione in pdf può essere scaricata qui.The GeoSolutions team,

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