Lorenzo Natali
I am a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead for the open-source project MapStore, specializing in web-based GIS applications. With a strong background in JavaScript, React, and Redux, I focus on building intuitive and high-performance mapping solutions.
My work revolves around developing interactive geospatial applications, optimizing user experience, and ensuring seamless data visualization. Over the years, I have contributed to various GIS projects, refining front-end architectures and integrating complex mapping functionalities.
While my expertise is primarily in front-end development, I also have experience in backend integration and GIS infrastructure optimization, particularly with GeoServer. Passionate about open-source GIS, I strive to enhance modern mapping platforms by improving performance, usability, and scalability.
Sessions
MapStore is an open source product developed for creating, saving and sharing in a simple and intuitive way maps, dashboards, charts and geostories directly online in your browser. MapStore is cross-browser and mobile ready, it allows users to:
- Search and load geospatial content served using widely used protocols (WMS, WFS, WMTS, TMS, CSW, 3D Tiles) and formats (GML, Shapefile, GeoJSON, KML/KMZ etc..)
- Manage maps (create, modify, share, delete, search), charts, dashboard and stories directly online
- Manage users, groups and their permissions over the various resources MapStore can manage
- Edit data online via WFS-T with advanced filtering capabilities
- Deeply customize the look&feel to follow strict corporate guidelines
- Manage different application contexts through an advanced wizard to have customized WebGIS MapStore viewers for different use cases (custom plugins set, map and theme)
You can use MapStore as a product to deploy simple geoportals by using the standard functionalities it provides but you can also use MapStore as a framework to develop sophisticated WebGIS portals by reusing and extending its core building blocks.
MapStore is built on top of React and Redux and its core does not explicitly depend on any mapping engine but it can support both OpenLayers, Leaflet and Cesium; additional mapping engines could be also supported to avoid any tight dependency on a single engine.
The presentation will give the audience an extensive overview of the MapStore functionalities for the creation of mapping portals, covering both previous work as well work for the future releases. Eventually, a range of MapStore case studies will be presented to demonstrate what our clients (like City of Genova, City of Florence, Halliburton, Austrocontrol and more) and partners are achieving with it.
The presentation describes processes and open-source tools employed by the author and his team to build and consume digital models for urban environments. The results of these processes will be rendered in MapStore as 3D Tiles layers, an OGC community standard designed for streaming and rendering massive 3D geospatial content. MapStore WebGIS framework support for 3D Tiles and glTF models through the Cesium mapping library has been greatly enhanced to support a more powerful integration. The latest versions of MapStore also include improvements and tools for exploring 3D data such as Map Views, Styling, 3D Measurements, Annotations and more.
Attendees will be presented with an overview of our work related to 3D data processing and visualization, and a selected city will be used to exemplify the processes. At the end of the presentation, attendees will be able to use the presented processes, tools and workflows to replicate them in different urban scenarios, finally visualizing them with the 3D tools of the MapStore WebGIS application.