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 meet the Open Source world, forget about licenses and decide the budget for the solutions you are looking for!
Our support plans are available in different packages because we care about who has small needs and budget and about who must manage complex infrastructures and needs high specialized support.

Don't get lost, leverage on the support from the developers of the software you are using!

Visit the web site for more information and ask us to contact you, we will discuss about how many users we can support with your computing resources rather than about how many licenses you should buy!

The GeoSolutions team,

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/win64
• More aggressive caching of GDAL Dataset resulting in more speed
• Less synchronization around GDAL calls resulting in more scalability

Artifacts Released
Artifacts for Imageio-Ext have been deployed on the GeoSolutions maven repository, as well as on the OSGEO one.


The GeoSolutions team,

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,

WMS cascading in latest GeoServer

One of the new exciting features in the GeoServer 2.1 series is WMS cascading.

For those that are not familiar with it, cascading allows to expose layers coming from other WMS servers as if they were local layers. This provides for some interesting advantages:

• Clients connecting to your SDI need to care about less points of origin, which might be important for high security networks
• It is now possible to ask for maps in formats not supported by the original server, or to reproject the maps in projections not supported by the original server (GeoServer supports out of the box almost 5000 different coordinate reference systems)
• It is now possible to mix the layers with local ones to generate print oriented formats such as PDF
• It is now possible to provide more informations about the layer, such as a better description, more keywords, which will benefit all clients, in particular catalogs harvesting informations from your capabilites document

Configuration

The configuration as usage of the cascaded layers follows GeoServer traditional ease of use.

The first step is to configure a new WMS server to be cascaded. In GeoServer terms that means configuring a new store, a WMS store in particular.

The only parameter needed is the capabilities document of the cascaded server, in this case, the DEMIS one (http://www2.demis.nl/wms/wms.asp?wms=WorldMap&request=getcapabilities&version=1.0.7)

Past this point it's business as usual, one just need to choose which layers to cascade using the normal layer configuration workflow:

Result

Here is GeoServer map preview showing two layers, Topography and Borders:

Of course it is also possible to mix in some local vector layers, such as, for example, the Tasmania layer group:

As said, one of the nice things about cascading is that one can add a few features, such as reprojection, transparently. The original modis server does not advertise reprojection abilities, yet GeoServer can reproject the data into EPSG:3785 on the fly for us:

Missing Features
There is still a number of things that can be done vs cascading:

• Support for secured remote servers
• Support for vendor parameters in cascading, including custom styling
• Better networking support, with HTTP 1.1 persistent connections, limitations on the number of parallel requests to the cascaded server, and configurable timeouts
• Support for choosing the cascading format (right now PNG is used)
• Support for GetFeatureInfo cascading on servers that do not provide GML output (if the GML GetFeatureInfo output is there full cascading is already in place and working!)
• Cascading WMS 1.3 servers
• Auto configuration of the layers exposed by a remote server, so that new layers are automatically exposed by GeoServer without any manual intervention

Are you interested in any of the above features? Let us know!

Regards,
the GeoSolutions team.

Sharing thoughts about FOSS4G-IT 2010 part 1

Ciao a tutti,

as announced in a previous post today we start to share the materials produced for the Foss4g-IT conference. Thanks to SUPSI, that in Lugano was host of this nice event, we had a very good time.

In this first part we are sharing the slides of the presentation that Ing Simone Giannecchini, founder of GeoSolutions, illustrated at SUPSI’s Aula Magna.

In this presentation you’ll find the state of art as far as Geoserver and its latest features are concerned: integrated security, dynamic symbolizers and ImageIO-Ext GDAL support. Also, quite interesting, it’s the use case describing an integrated system for scientific purpose that uses open source software to manage environmental and geographic data. This bring us to the definition of OpenSDI, a Spatial Data Infrastructure stack based on open source software that GeoSolutions is creating.

OpenSDI will not be simply an aggregation of different open source geospatial frameworks, it will be an integrated infrastructure based on best-of-breed components to provide, out-of-the-box, a complete, tested, integrated and supported solution for managing an enterprise spatial data infrastructure … and not only!

Soon, in the second part of this post, we will share the live-DVD produced for the foss4g-IT workshop. With this anyone we’ll be able to try and test, in a vary easy way (no installation required), Geoserver and others Geosolutions’s products!

... To be continued ......

Geosolutions Foss4g It 2010

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Notizie dal FOSS4G-IT 2010 Lugano

Scriviamo dall’aula magna della Scuola Università Professionale della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI) che gentilmente ospita presso le sue strutture l’edizione 2010 del FOSS4G-IT.

Di seguito pubblichiamo uno scatto della giornata di ieri, la giornata dedicata ai workshop, tipicamente il momento nel quale gli ‘esperti’ del campo condividono le loro conoscenze per la formazione.

GeoSolutions, tramite Alessio Fabiani e Simone Giannecchini, core developers di Geoserver, GeoTools, GeoBatch e ImageIO-Ext, hanno messo a disposizione dei partecipanti le loro conoscenze di sviluppatori del Geoserver in tre intense ore di formazione di base e non solo.

E’ stata un’ottima occasione sia per noi di testare le nostre capacità formative, attività mai semplice e che richiede elevata professionalità ed un continuo rinnovamento delle tematiche trattate e del materiale formativo; sia per i partecipanti che hanno potuto sfruttare una corsia preferenziale per entrare nel mondo del Geoserver e della disseminazione dei dati geografici con standard OGC.

Il live-DVD prodotto per il workshop verrà presto messo a disposizione di tutte le persone che desiderano provare in maniera semplice, nessuna installazione richiesta, Geoserver ed altri software GIS.

Un ringraziamento particolare a Massimiliano Cannata ed all’Istituto di Scienze della Terra di Lugano (D.A.C.D).