It’s been a long time coming, but after nine months, hundreds of hours of development and testing work, two betas and five release candidates, the GeoServer team is happy to announce the release of GeoServer 2.1.0! The release of a new major version update is a big deal (the last one was 18 months ago), [...]
Community member Michelle Ballinger has put together a short tutorial on creating an open source web map using GeoServer. This tutorial is designed for a beginner and is easy to follow. The steps she uses are: Creating and editing data with QGIS Designing SLDs with uDig Serving maps with GeoServer Creating a custom OpenLayers application [...]
Styling map layers in GeoServer can be challenging. While there are some ways to craft map layers without ever needing to look at Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) code, there are some who don’t want an intermediary and want to code with SLD directly. For those, there are few options: 1. Read the OGC SLD 1.0 [...]
GeoServer can now add one more language of support to its ever growing list. Kevin Yang has created a web forum for GeoServer users in Chinese. Here is his welcome message. Stop on by and say 你好!
The GeoServer Team would like to announce that GeoServer 2.0 is now out of beta and has moved into Release Candidate status. In case you haven’t been following our previous posts, GeoServer 2.0 contains a completely redesigned user interface, using Wicket. Based on feedback from our beta testers, the move to RC1 consisted mainly of [...]
CSIRO Minerals Down Under Flagship and its partner AuScope are conducting a nationwide workshop to showcase the new technologies available to the geoscience community to access data about the Australian landscape. The AuScope Web Services Roadshow is visiting every state geological survey in Australia. AuScope is helping to build an e-research infrastructure to federate nationally [...]
GeoServer is featured in an article in InfoGEO magazine. Written by active community member Fernando Quadro, the article is a brief overview of GeoServer. There may not be anything new here for those who are already familiar with GeoServer, but it’s still great to see GeoServer in print. Original Article English translation (via Google Translate) [...]
The presentations for FOSS4G 2009 were announced this week. Looking at the presentations and workshops, one thing is obvious: GeoServer will be all over the place this year! Here’s a quick rundown of the currently scheduled events that mention GeoServer, either partially or primarily. Presentations: GeoServer application schema support: complex features for the masses Extension [...]
Update: As of GeoServer 2.0.1, the legacy installer has been merged into the new installer. This means that during installation, you now have a choice on whether to install GeoServer as a Windows service or to run it manually. GeoServer has provided a Windows installer for the past 4 years (since at least version 1.2.4, [...]
I’m excited to tell you about some changes to the GeoServer documentation. We are transitioning away from our wiki in favor of a new system. After much discussion, we are now using the Sphinx Documentation Generator. Sphinx has many advantages over a wiki. The biggest advantage is that the content of the documentation is written [...]