The GeoServer community is happy to announce that the second release candidate of GeoServer 2.1 is now available for download. There is not much in the way of new features for this release, but the team has been busy fixing bugs. Checkout the change log for the list of fixes. Download and try 2.1-RC2 now. [...]
The GeoServer community is happy to announce that the first release candidate of GeoServer 2.1 is now available for download. The team has been busy working on some great new improvements and features since 2.1-beta3. First up is GeoWebCache integration, allowing clients to enjoy the benefits of tile caching through the regular GeoServer WMS endpoint. This enables GeoWebCache [...]
The GeoServer community is proud to announce the release of 2.1-beta3, which is now available for download. The big feature for this release is support for WMS 1.3. Special thanks goes out to Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping agency, for providing OpenGeo with funding to complete the task. With WMS 1.3 mandated by the INSPIRE Initiative, [...]
We are pleased to announce the second beta release of GeoServer 2.1. Big thanks goes out to GeoSolutions for stepping up to the unglamorous and thankless process of creating a release, not to mention adding lots of great new features. GeoServer 2.1.0 is shaping up to be quite an incredible step forward. In addition to [...]
Just in time for FOSS4G the GeoServer community is pleased to announce the release of 2.1 beta1. The first beta release of the long awaited 2.1 branch is now available for download. Anticipation for this release has been growing over the last few months due to the number of notable new features it brings. Let’s [...]
To meet the growing demand for a geospatial server that meets the open standards set by the Open Geospatial Consortium, the GeoServer community has worked hard to release the new GeoServer 2.0.2. This release includes almost 100 bugfixes and new features. As previously mentioned, GeoServer now provides support for Oracle Georaster, custom database layouts for [...]
The opportunities available to those with experience in GeoServer seem to be growing all the time. As more organizations rely on GeoServer for their applications they seek people who already have experience working with the software. The best kind of experience is being able to point to actual involvement in the project, so I encourage [...]
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 users have a lot to wrap their heads around. We need to optimize our servlet containers, determine projections for all those broken shapefiles, and remember to fill out layer metadata. One issue in particular that comes up again and again is difficulty with creating SLD files to style maps. It is hardly surprising that [...]
GeoServer is now able to output maps that look like continuous wrapped maps from Google! Let’s have a look at an example. Below is a map drawn by GeoServer that is reprojected to a projection that happens to sit across the dateline, the usual “edge” of the map. As you can see the reprojection is [...]