Starting with the 1.7.0 release GeoServer comes with a pretty decent (well, at least IMHO ) implementation of the SLD 1.0 RasterSymbolizer element (check here for a technical discussion on the implementation). On a side this means that we can try to style raster data as well as verctor data. On the other side, this [...]
The GeoServer team is happy to announce an extension for Microsoft SQL Server, currently available as a nightly build. Instructions for getting the extension up and running are available on the wiki. At this point the extension is still quite young and is missing some key features like spatial indexing and support for well known [...]
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 [...]
One thing we’ve wanted to do with this blog is use it as a forum to allow people to follow what’s going on in the world of GeoServer without having to dive in to hundreds of messages per month on the lists. I’ve been blogging long enough to know that I should never make promises [...]
I’ve just uploaded a new GeoJSON plug-in for GeoServer, enabling JSON output for any WFS request. The plug-in is definitely compatible with all versions of GeoServer 1.5.x, and will likely work with 1.4.x as well. This was a breeze to write, which is a testament to the nice design of GeoServer and to the strength [...]
The GeoServer team has been hard at work fixing bugs for the upcoming 1.5.2 release. However its not all bug fixes. One very exciting new feature is the addition of GeoRSS as an output format. The addition of GeoRSS makes the process of creating your own map mashup with GeoServer as simple as ever. Simply [...]
As many may know GeoServer is one of the many open source projects involved in this years Google Summer of Code initiative. We are very pleased to announce that two GeoServer based projects were accepted and would like to congratulate those students who submitted proposals on a job well done. Christopher Whitney will be working [...]
We recently learned about IBM’s DB2 Express-C database, a free version of DB2 that comes with less restrictions than the free Oracle XE (which GeoServer also supports through Oracle Locator). Our main curiosity is if it will work with GeoServer. So we got in touch with David Adler, our community member from IBM, to ask [...]
Geoserver WMS has been know so far for the beautiful looking maps it’s able to generate. This is the result of true color rendering, antialiasing, and SLD expressiveness. Yet, there is a price to pay for such an output: size. Image files generated by the current WMS are big, and this shows up quite evidently [...]
So I’m about to update the GeoServer Roadmap, since the short term projects currently listed should be done. And I thought before doing that I’d see how we did against the previous goals. Of course we don’t make any promises about delivery of these, unless of course someone funds a core developer to meet a [...]