GeoServer CSS module graduated to official extension

Dear All,if you have been looking at the recent GeoServer releases you might have noticed that the CSS styling module has been graduated to extension status, making it available to a much larger audience as part of the GeoServer releases (before it was available as part of the nighly builds, for those that venture to try out new features).For those that are not up to speed, the CSS styling module, originally written and maintained by David Winslow, allows to build styles using a CSS-like syntax which is at the same time more compact and more expressive than the usual SLD styling...

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GeoServer presentation during SDI Days 2013

Dear All,GeoSolutions has been invited last week to the 2013 edition of the SDI Days which took place on th 26th and 27th of September in Sibenik, Croatia.The conference was organized by The State Geodetic Administration Croatia, the Joint Research Centre - Institute for Environment and Sustainability and the Croatian Chamber of Chartered Geodetic Engineers. The SDI days 2013 focused:on 26th September INSPIRE and integrated land & water management scientific workshopon 27th September 5th NSDI and INSPIRE day.Simone Giannecchini and Eleonora Fontana were invited to give a talk about current status and future developments in GeoServer which is a mature building block for creating...

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Developer’s Corner: MapStore 1.3.0 released!

We are proud to announce the MapStore 1.3.0 release.This is the latest official release of MapStore, the simple and intuitive way to create, save and share maps.MapStore is based on the GeoExplorer Open Source framework and is licensed under the GPL license.You can get MapStore as:generic binarygeonetwork integrated binarywindows installergeonetwork integrated windows installerHere is a list of the most important improvements included in this release: Update ExtJS and OpenLayers to 3.4.1.1 and 2.13.1 versions Allow multiple plugin instances, allow overriding of default plugin configurationGeoLocations MenuMain Toolbar Improvements Many additional bugfixes If you need further info look at the complete list of included issues.With MapStore you...

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Meet us at the FOSS4G 2013

Dear All,GeoSolutions is proud to announce its participation as silver sponsor to the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 2013 conference, being held September 17th - 21st, 2013, at the East Midlands conference center in Nottingham, UK.Here below you can find the detailed schedule of our workshops and presentations during the conference.WorkshopsWednesday, the 18th, 2013OGC services with GeoServer: from journeyman to master: Trent B16 -  9:30 a.m. to  6 p.m.This workshop will provide a introduction to OGC services implementation with GeoServer and GeoWebCache, covering the basics and moving forward to more advanced topics.Thursday, the 19th, 2013SpatioTemporal data handling with GeoServer: Sir Clive Granger Building: B29 A - 2...

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Saving the world one application at a time: FAO Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems Database

At GeoSolutions we believe that success stories about important organizations and Open Source Software should be openly shared and they can be used as a measure of OSS success in the formal enterprise environment (but you should alreay know this ;)).  In this blog post we are going to quickly introduce some work we have done for the  Fishery and Aqualture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN).The FAO Fishery and Aqualture Department, specifically the FIGIS group; is involved in many efforts geared towards the conservation of the marine ecosystem and GeoSolutions is honored to work with them on some of the mapping applications they need...

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