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The popular open source geospatial data server GeoServer version 2.7 has been released earlier this week. The new features highlighted in the announcement: Color composition and color blending These are two new extensions to the rendering engine that allows for greater control over how overlapping layers in a map are merged together Relative time support in WMS/WCS WPS: WPS clustering ...

The popular open source web mapping library OpenLayers version 3.4.0 has been released today. Some new features according to the announcement: “Dateline wrapping has been added for tile sources, you can most clearly see this in the new wms-tiled-wrap-180 example. The draw interaction can now draw circles as well, check out the updated draw features example and select Geometry type Circle. […] ...

The UN reports about Humanitarian Open Street Map Team (HOT) support of Cyclone Pam recovery in Vanuatu. HOT reported: “In the space of less than 24 hours, the HOT community more than doubled the amount of map data in OpenStreetMap. This was done by first covering all the priority islands to map with both Task Manager about 99% completed. The community ...

Addition of Outdoor Recreation Maps Highlights Digital Options for Outdoor Enthusiasts on 100th Anniversary of National Geographic’s Cartographic Division TORONTO (March 17)—National Geographic Maps, celebrating 100 years as one of the most trusted names in cartography, will make available hundreds of maps from its Trails Illustrated line through Avenza Systems Inc.’s popular, award-winning PDF Maps app. The addition of ...

16.03.15 - Eternix Ltd., leading provider of next-generation software for GIS visualization and editing in 3D, announces the addition of a new 30-meter global digital-terrain web layer to Blaze Terra’s collection of instantly accessible web layers, available as of version 4.1 of the software. The new web layer, derived from NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), depicts nearly the entire ...

OSGeo is pleased to announce that the pycsw project has graduated from incubation and is now a full fledged OSGeo project. Angelos Tzotsos, a long time member of the pycsw Project Steering Committee (PSC) has been appointed as project officer.  The full post is available on the OSGeo website. The project powers numerous high profile activities such as US data/geoplatform, ...

Here’s the recent geonews in batch mode. From the open source / open data front: Beautiful progress and maps, The first ten years of OpenStreetMap, nice progress map, and somewhat related, Mapping turn restrictions and speed limits with Mapillary (crowdsourced Street Level photos ) A new open source database, GeoWave aims at linking popular geospatial tools to “big data” ...

Releases of the popular open source desktop GIS software QGIS are always good news, and it is now at version QGIS 2.8 LTR. LTR what? “LTR stands for “Long Term Release”. This means that QGIS now has a system in place to provide a one-year stable release with backported bug fixes. The idea behind LTR is to have a stable ...

To support continued business growth, Aerial photography and mapping specialist Getmapping has made a number of new appointments to strengthen both its commercial and technical teams. Carl Greenman has joined Getmapping’s Business Innovation team as a Geospatial Specialist. He will be supporting projects across all areas of the Getmapping Group business, many of which require specialist GIS and geospatial skills, particularly the development ...

CubeWerx today announced the availability of OpenImgeMap™ – A cloud-based platform for hosting and publishing dynamic collections of geospatial imagery and securely delivering them through Open APIs. As a world leader in the provisioning of interoperable Web services, CubeWerx now sets the bar for dynamic hosting of imagery. Upload your data, tile it, and create Web services in minutes instead ...