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

…

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