GeoServer and OpenGeo

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GeoServer and OpenGeo
Chris Holmes
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What is GeoServer?

• Geospatial Web Server
• vector and raster data
• Open standards
• WFS
• WMS
• WCS
• Gateway to the GeoWeb

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What is GeoServer?
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The Past
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The Past
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The Present
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KML
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REST
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Rendering
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ArcSDE
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Databases
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Output Formats
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Extensions
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2.0
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The Year in Review

• 489 bug fixes
• 1682 commits
• 7 releases

Without October, November, December
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Bug Fixes
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Commits
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Downloads
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Mailing List Traffic
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GeoServer International

• English 987 members
• Brazilian 300 members
• Chinese 282 members
• Italian 54 members
• Spanish 53 members

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• 2.0!

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New UI
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Security UI

• Users and roles
• Data security
• Service security

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Application Schemas

• Complex feature schemas
• Feature chaining

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KML

• Super Overlays
• Geo Search
• Extrudes
• Partial 3D

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Rendering

• Labels
• curved labeling
• repetition
• wrapping
• displacement
• Dynamic symbolizers
• hatched fills
• dynamic glyphs
• Resource limits

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REST

• RESTful configuration
• Styler

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ArcSDE Raster

• Arbitrary number of bands and pixel depth
• Color maps
• Raster catalogs

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ArcSDE Miscellaneous

• Scalability with sessions
• Multi-version tables
• Geometryless
• JNDI

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Raster Improvements

• GDAL support
• more formats
• robust bindings
• Mosaics
• automated index creation
• transparency
• Coverage rendering

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Databases

• NG architecture
• security
• performance
• Improved PostGIS and Oracle
• SQL Server
• JNDI connections

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Extensions

• Tiles and pyramids in the database
• Vector pyramids
• Charts
• HTML image maps

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On the Horizon

• Database configuration storage
• Multi-dimensional coverages
• Service profiles
• Web Processing Service
• Scripting

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OpenGeo
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Sorting Confusion
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In the beginning
(The Open Planning Project)
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The first project
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Towards OpenGeo

• From a side project of TOPP
• To sustaining contract work
• And the push to grow

Grow!
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Building a stack
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The Client
OpenLayers
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The Cache
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The Database
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The Rich Client
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The OpenGeo Suite
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Funding
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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

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OpenGeo.org
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Towards a Product
Enterprise
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The full solution
OpenGeo
Suite
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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