The GeoServer Team is happy to announce the the release of GeoServer 1.7.4, the fifth stable version in the 1.7 series. This release contains some new features, many having to do with improved map rendering options. We have introduced WMS decoration, which provides a framework for adding images such as compasses and legends to WMS [...]
I am happy to announce to everyone a sneak peak of the future of GeoServer. Behold the newest alpha release of GeoServer 2.0. I first mentioned GeoServer 2.0 last August when the first alpha was released, but much work has been done since then. The most obvious and exciting new feature in GeoServer 2.0 is [...]
I received a note recently from a GeoServer blog reader who wanted to show off another project using GeoServer, which I am happy to present here. The Marine Science Institute at UC Santa Barbara and Farallon Geographics have built a public, online mapping application enabling scientists and community members to help select marine environments that [...]
Here’s a neat trick for those working with road maps that want to indicate traffic direction by way of appropriately pointed arrows. With text symbolizers using font characters, this is actually a snap, provided your data includes information about direction. The New York City streets data set has an attribute field called trafdir which specifies [...]
The Google Summer of Code is upon us! (Yes, it does seem like we just finished SoC 2008.) GeoServer is once again a part of this process and we have a list of projects posted for anyone who is interested. We are assuming all students interested in working on GeoServer will have solid Java knowledge, [...]
Here’s a guest post by Ben Caradoc-Davies and Robert Woodcock of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. As a part of the Auscope Spatial Information Services Stack, GeoServer complex feature support is nearing completion. Auscope is using GeoServer to support its vision of developing a collaborative national geoscience spatial data infrastructure (SDI) that [...]
Admit it. You love visualizing data. Mere tables do nothing for you, but the minute you can turn that into a map (or a graph or chart), information comes alive. I was recently turned on to Swivel, a website that allows you to upload, visualize, and share data. The main page provides a list of [...]
When the GeoServer Team announced GeoServer 1.7.3 last Wednesday, the response was quite impressive. GeoServer received the largest amount of downloads in a single day on Thursday, March 12th, at over 1,500 (normally the number is less than half that). Our website hit a new record of visits as well. While we’re all delighted, I [...]
The GeoServer team is proud to announce the release of GeoServer 1.7.3. The team has been busy in the six weeks since the previous release, with a code sprint in New York last month and a whopping 63 bugs and new features fixed and implemented (respectively, of course). This release brings improved support for ArcSDE [...]
The most common question I hear from GeoServer users is: “Who else is using GeoServer?” So when I find a great example of GeoServer in the wild, I like to pass it along. The National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado has a large collection of freely downloadable data, and they are serving [...]