GeoServer and OpenGeo
–Chris Holmes
• Geospatial Web Server– vector and raster data
• Open standards– WFS– WMS– WCS
• Gateway to the “GeoWeb”
What is GeoServer?
What is GeoServer?
The Past
The Past
The Present
KML
REST
Rendering
ArcSDE
Databases
Output Formats
Extensions
2.0
• 489 bug fixes
• 1682 commits
• 7 releases
* Without October, November, December
The Year in Review
Bug Fixes
Commits
Downloads
Mailing List Traffic
• English – 987 members
• Brazilian – 300 members
• Chinese – 282 members
• Italian – 54 members
• Spanish – 53 members
GeoServer International
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2.0!
New UI
• Users and roles
• Data security
• Service security
Security UI
• Complex feature schemas
• Feature chaining
Application Schemas
• Super Overlays
• Geo Search
• Extrudes
• Partial 3D
KML
• Labels– curved labeling– repetition– wrapping– displacement
• Dynamic symbolizers– hatched fills– dynamic glyphs
• Resource limits
Rendering
• RESTful configuration
• Styler
REST
• Arbitrary number of bands and pixel depth
• Color maps
• Raster catalogs
ArcSDE Raster
• Scalability with sessions
• Multi-version tables
• Geometryless
• JNDI
ArcSDE Miscellaneous
• GDAL support– more formats– robust bindings
• Mosaics– automated index creation– transparency
• Coverage rendering
Raster Improvements
• “NG” architecture– security– performance
• Improved PostGIS and Oracle
• SQL Server
• JNDI connections
Databases
• Tiles and pyramids in the database
• Vector pyramids
• Charts
• HTML image maps
Extensions
• Database configuration storage
• Multi-dimensional coverages
• Service profiles
• Web Processing Service
• Scripting
On the Horizon
OpenGeo
Sorting Confusion
In the beginning
(The Open Planning Project)
The first project
Towards OpenGeo
• From a side project of TOPP
• To sustaining contract work
• And the push to grow
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Grow!
Building a stack
The Client
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The Cache
The Database
The Rich Client
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The OpenGeo Suite
Funding
Building the Open Geospatial Web
• Making Geospatial Information Open and Accessible
• By bringing Open Source Principles to Geo
• Working by building OS software that gets used by all
• In the context of a hybrid organization
OpenGeo.org
Enterprise
Towards a Product
OpenGeoSuite
The full solution
Towards the ‘dot-org’
• Full Cost Recovery for OpenGeo• Spin off like Mozilla Corporation• Reinvest profit in similar ‘dot-orgs’
– Make Capital viral like the GPL
• Require complete transparency• Business built on Open Source
principles