As with GeoServer 1.7.1, the latest release improves some cartographic rendering capabilities of the Open Source server product. 1.7.2 brings wrapped labels and hatching to render some impressive maps. Other new additions include HTML image mapping, OGR extension to output WFS as any supported OGR output formats (I get chills thinking of the possibilities), and improvements to GeoExt Styler. If that still doesn’t get you interested, this little tidbit at the end of the post should catch your eye:
Stay tuned for the 1.7.3 release, slated for release in the next month, which will include improvements to Geo Search, and the official release of the REST configuration API.
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Wow! GeoServer is awesome. After a bit of simple tweaking, I might just have to integrate this into my webserver. Thanks for the write-up. ~Mark
@Mark: You don’t even have to “integrate” it if you’re using a servlet engine – just drop the WAR into Tomcat etc and you’re good to go.
In case anyone’s curious about who’s using GeoServer and how, there’s a recent Google Tech Talk video of a lecture at the AGU by Lisa Ballagh, from the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre, on using Google Earth and GeoServer to publish glacier data:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f2KgK0UKRtU&feature=channel_page
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