Improvements to GeoServer are being made all the time, but to the average user, not all improvements are immediately discernible. However, recently a new feature has been added to GeoServer’s rendering algorithms, and all I can say is “wow.” I am referring to curved line labeling. Labels on lines have rendering challenges that points and [...]
Are you or your organization serving data publicly via GeoServer? Would you like this data to be searchable via Google Maps? At OpenGeo we are testing out new “geo search” functionality in GeoServer. We believe this is the future of finding geospatial information on the web. While still in development, this functionality will be available [...]
I’d like to quickly congratulate the uDig developers team for releasing the newest version of uDig. uDig 1.1 has a venerable history. Quite a venerable history, as releases go. In fact, I think uDig might be in line for some kind of Guinness-style award for having the most release candidates (with 14 RCs and even [...]
There are some questions that are asked quite frequently by people who are using GeoServer, or who are thinking about doing so. And certain ones can’t be so easily answered as those in our FAQ. One of the most common I see is this: “GeoServer is nifty, but is it fast?” Clearly some benchmarks [...]
Today we have a new release candidate of GeoServer 1.7.x for everyone’s testing pleasure. We don’t wish to invoke Zeno’s Dichotomy Paradox, but we are in fact very close to the release. In truth this release candidate only includes six new bug fixes (the most notable regarding projection persistence and Google Earth overlays). If it [...]
Here’s a quick announcement for all those who understand the above. GeoServer now has an Italian language users mailing list! Created and moderated by core GeoServer developer Andrea Aime, the mailing list is a resource for those who would like assistance in all things GeoServer, but prefer to discuss in Italian. This marks the third [...]
For the past few months, the GeoServer team has been working behind the scenes on rebranding GeoServer. Historically, GeoServer hasn’t had a very strong visual identity, but there has been significant interest as of late, especially as talk of the new GeoServer UI has entered alpha status. So, ace stylers Andy Cochran and Chris Patterson [...]
I just ran across this interesting post from a few weeks ago. It seems that an alphabet soup of non-profit companies, The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), World Monuments Fund (WMF), and Jordan Department of Antiquities (DoA) are developing a geographic information system to manage archaeological sites in Jordan. The Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities (MEGA) [...]
GeoServer has been mentioned on the website linux.com. In their Tips And Tricks area, they have written a quick tutorial on installing and running GeoServer in Linux (Ubuntu, specifically), downloading a TIGER shapefile, loading the shapefile in GeoServer, and even a brief introduction to styling. This page covers a lot of ground in a short [...]
We seem to be releasing something every week now, a testament to our tireless developers and input of the community. Last week, we released 1.6.5, which is still the official stable release at the time of writing. However, we are closer than ever to a stable release of the 1.7.0 branch, and today we release [...]