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GeoServer 1.5.0 Released
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jdeolive writes "The GeoServer Project is proud to announce the release of version 1.5.0. This
release turns GeoServer in to a complete solution for serving any type of
spatial data, as the primary focus has been support for raster formats,
starting with GeoTiff, ArcGrid, World Images, GTOPO30, and image mosiacs and
pyramids. As always GeoServer is focused on open standards and open data,
making the rasters available as a Web Map Service, but also through the Web
Coverage Service specification, which gives full access to the raw data, not
just the final image. The WCS passes all OGC Compliance tests, and will be
fully certified very soon. Other notable improvements for this release
include easier adding of data through the web admin tools, better support for
Google Earth KML, performance and scalability improvements, and as always a
heap of bug fixes." The rest of the announcement below, including links to download this open source software.
"The Web Coverage Service implementation and WMS raster support have been the result of work carried out by GeoSolutions, who have been a prominent member of the GeoServer community for some time. The community is glad to take this contribution and make it part of the GeoServer core and thanks GeoSolutions for their excellent work. It is amazing to see not just bug fixes and new data formats, but completely new functionality that would not be possible without the ever expanding community.
Since its inception GeoServer has been an open source, standards based implementation of web services for publishing geospatial data. It is an integral part of the 'geospatial web' connecting a wide variety of spatial data sources to a wide variety of clients. GeoServer can be downloaded from SourceForge. To see GeoServer in action check out this demo site located at sigma.openplans.org. For those interested in what is going on in the GeoServer community, but not ready to jump in to the fray of mailing lists, there is now a blog to follow."
Since its inception GeoServer has been an open source, standards based implementation of web services for publishing geospatial data. It is an integral part of the 'geospatial web' connecting a wide variety of spatial data sources to a wide variety of clients. GeoServer can be downloaded from SourceForge. To see GeoServer in action check out this demo site located at sigma.openplans.org. For those interested in what is going on in the GeoServer community, but not ready to jump in to the fray of mailing lists, there is now a blog to follow."
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chorner writes "This just in via Frank Warmerdam: 'OSGeo has selected sixteen students to participate in development efforts spread across the GDAL, GRASS, GeoTools, PostGIS, uDig, and GeoServer projects as part of the Google Summer of Code for 2007.
Google is providing funding for the selected students, while the
project communities are providing mentors to assist the students. A
full list of students, mentors and planned developments is available
at:
http://code.google.com/soc/osgeo/about.html
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* Custom palette support
* GetFeatureInfo templates
* KML and GeoRSS improvements
* GetLegendGraphic enhancements
* Ability to serve content directory from data directory,
and a heap of bug fixes as usual." Update: 08/08 20:42 GMT by S : An anonymous user told us GeoServer 1.5.2 might not be bug free: Anonymous Voxel writes "Geoserver Blog sent a call for testing on the new "release" of Geoserver: So we were hoping to do a big announcement of GeoServer 1.5.2 today. But our ambitious bug fixes and improvements (over 80 issues) has come back to haunt us, and taught us an important lesson about doing release candidates first, even if 1.5.2-RC1 doesn’t sound great to our ears. We squeezed in lots of Google Earth output improvements, added GeoRSS, improved the Google Maps demo with a better projection, and added paletted images for faster and lighter image generation. And of course those have been where we’ve seen a few problems. We’ve uploaded the release to sourceforge, but users have already reported a few small errors with GeoRSS and Google Maps, so we’re regrouping and hoping to gather any additional bug reports and do the big release announcements next week. [...]"
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