Ian Turton
Ian has been involved in open source geospatial development since the 1990s, starting with the development of the GeoTools library and later the GeoServer project. He has been a programmer in academia and industry since 1992. Currently, he is a research software engineer data scientist at the University of Glasgow but they rarely know what he's up to let alone allow him to speak for them.
Sessions
GeoServer is a web service for publishing your geospatial data using industry standards for vector, raster and mapping, as well as to process data, either in batch or on the fly.
GeoServer powers a number of open source projects like GeoNode and geOrchestra and it is widely used throughout the world by organizations to manage, disseminate and analyze data at scale.
This presentation provides an update on our community as well as reviews of the new and noteworthy features for the latest releases. In particular, we will showcase new features landed in 2.24 and 2.25, as well as a preview of what we have in store for 2.26 (to be released in September 2024).
Attend this talk for a cheerful update on what is happening with this popular OSGeo project, whether you are an expert user, a developer, or simply curious what GeoServer can do for you.
Many national and regional governments have in the past few decades created GeoPortals to meet their
obligations to provide citizen access to their spatial data. This spatial data is collected, in many cases, at
tax payer expense. Indeed the EU (2024) says:
The publication of data is driven by the belief that it brings enormous benefits to citizens, businesses,
and public administrations, while at the same time enabling stronger co-operation across Europe. Open data
can bring benefits in various fields, such as health, food security, education, climate, intelligent
transport systems, and smart cities - and is considered "an essential resource for economic growth, job
creation and societal progress".
But even now nearly a quarter century after the introduction of the first Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
standards for interoperability there seems to be a wide spread failure to make use of OGC standards to provide
access to the underlying data that is needed by citizens create economic growth.
This paper will detail the author's experiences with attempting to acquire spatial data and their observations
of relatively inexperienced students trying to navigate some examples of geoportals. The paper will then make
some suggestions to help data providers serve data with the modern methods and formats that users actually
want, using open source tools such as GeoServer.