Andrea Aime

AI assistants can now help administer GeoServer and MapStore via Model Context Protocol servers, publishing layers, tuning caches, diagnosing issues, with guardrails to keep them safe. An early look at what we're building and learning.

GeoServer is mature and widely deployed, yet often underperforms due to configuration, not software. This talk self-benchmarks GeoServer: measuring the real performance cost of operator decisions—data formats, security, logging, CRS, JVM settings, and scaling.

GeoSolutions experience deploying GeoServer for precision farming at scale: optimizing raster/vector data, PostGIS data modeling, deployment guidelines, and on-the-fly agronomical index styling (NDVI and beyond).

GeoServer enables publishing and processing geospatial data via open standards. This talk highlights new features, community updates, and recent developments, making it valuable for users, developers, and those curious about this widely adopted open-source OSGeo project.

GeoServer 3 completes a long-planned modernization effort updating core dependencies while preserving backwards compatibility. This talk revisits the transition, outlines how it was organized and delivered, shares lessons learned and future directions.

GeoSolutions is a core contributor to GeoNode, GeoServer, GeoTools, GeoWebCache and MapStore. This session shows, through concrete examples, how our client-first enterprise services — support, training, and custom development — consistently strengthen open source software.

This talk presents a practical playbook for taking GeoServer to production, covering performance tuning, data preparation, caching strategies, and operational controls.

This presentation introduces GeoServer’s authentication and authorization subsystems, covering supported protocols, identity providers, and integration strategies. It explores combining mechanisms into a unified framework, custom plugins, and proxy-based solutions.

This workshop introduces OGC APIs, their story, objectives and structure, with practical examples from the GeoServer. Join this workshop to get an update on the APIs, to learn the current implementation progress as well as some GeoServer unique features.

An in-depth look at GeoServer’s support for Mapbox Vector Tiles, covering recent enhancements, flexible styling mechanisms, and performance optimization techniques such as feature consolidation.

Learn how to build and serve vector tiles with GeoServer, and how GeoServer can be well suited to mixed serving use cases (raster + vector), dynamic data, as well as handling different views based on the current user security clearance.

GeoServer 3 marks the completion of a long-planned modernization effort aimed at keeping the project aligned with the current Java ecosystem, while preserving the stability and backwards compatibility that users rely on.

Setting up GeoServer can be deceptively simple. Bringing it into production—stable, performant, and capable of handling real-world traffic—is a different challenge.

The OGC APIs are a fresh take at doing geo-spatial APIs, based on WEB API concepts and modern formats, including: - Small core with basic functionality, extra functionality provided by extensions - OpenAPI/RESTful based - JSON first, while still allowing to provide data in other…

This workshop introduces OGC APIs, their story, objectives and structure, with practical examples from the GeoServer. Join this workshop to get an update on the APIs, to learn the current implementation progress as well as some GeoServer unique features.

The volume of data to be processed and published continues to grow rapidly, particularly in domains such as maritime monitoring, where continuous streams of AIS data must be ingested, processed, and visualized.

The growing availability of data from drones, Earth observation, and agricultural machinery (i.e., telemetry), combined with the advent of cloud infrastructure, has significantly accelerated innovation in how farmers and agricultural systems are supported.

This presentation explores GeoServer’s capabilities for publishing rich data models, including complex features with nested properties and multi-valued relationships, through standard OGC services and OGC API - Features.

Learn how to build and serve vector tiles with GeoServer, and how GeoServer can be well suited to mixed serving use cases (raster + vector), dynamic data, as well as handling different views based on the current user security clearance.

This talk shares progress on GeoServer 3. It covers motivations, technical upgrades like Jakarta EE, Spring 6, ImageN and Wicket 10, and a progress update. GeoServer 3 ensures the platform remains robust, secure, and future-ready for geospatial needs.

OGC APIs offer a modern, modular approach to geospatial APIs using REST, JSON, and OpenAPI. This talk introduces key APIs, extensions, and GeoServer integrations, outlining current implementations, future plans, and long term evolution of the GeoServer service platform.

This workshop introduces OGC APIs, their story, objectives and structure, with practical examples from the GeoServer. Join this workshop to get an update on the APIs, to learn the current implementation progress as well as some GeoServer unique features.

GeoServer enables publishing and processing geospatial data via open standards. This talk highlights new features, community updates, and recent developments, making it valuable for users, developers, and those curious about this widely adopted open-source OSGeo project.

Learn how to build and serve vector tiles with GeoServer, and how GeoServer can be well suited to pure vector tiles, hybrid cases serving both raster and vector, as well as dynamic, non cacheable data.

This presentation chronicles the evolution of GeoServer’s compliance with OGC standards, detailing both past challenges and recent achievements. GeoServer has long been committed to open standards, historically running CITE tests to validate its OGC services.

This presentation provides an in-depth status update on GeoServer 3, the ambitious overhaul of the widely used open-source server for spatial data and web services.

The presentation will provide a comprehensive introduction to GeoServer's own authentication and authorization subsystems. The authentication part will cover the various supported authentication protocols (e.g.

The OGC APIs are a fresh take at doing geo-spatial APIs, based on WEB API concepts and modern formats, including: - Small core with basic functionality, extra functionality provided by extensions - OpenAPI/RESTful based - JSON first, while still allowing to provide data in other…

This workshop introduces OGC APIs, their story, their objectives and structure, with plenty of practical examples from the GeoServer implementations of such standards.

The amount of data we have to process and publish keeps growing every day, fortunately, the infrastructure, technologies, and methodologies to handle such streams of data keep improving and maturing.

This presentation will cover the support GeoServer provides to publish rich data models (complex features with nested properties and multiple-cardinality relationships), through OGC services and OGC API - Features, focusing on the recent Smart Data Loader and Features Templating…

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.

Mapbox vector tiles have emerged as a popular format for delivering geospatial data, offering dynamic rendering and interactivity for modern web maps. While not an official OGC standard, this open specification has been widely adopted, making it a staple of web cartography.

Learn how to build and serve vector tiles with GeoServer, and how GeoServer can be well suited to mixed serving use cases (raster + vector), dynamic data, as well as handling different views based on the current user security clearance.

The OGC APIs offer modern, flexible geo-spatial services based on OpenAPI/RESTful principles. They feature a small core with extensions, JSON-first data, support for data tiles, specialized APIs, and extensibility.

The W3C Maps for HTML Community Group aims to establish a standard map HTML element, supported and rendered by browsers. It supports full-screen, tiled, and vector maps. Dive into the specification and its integration into GeoServer.

This workshop introduces OGC APIs, their story, objectives and structure, with practical examples from the GeoServer implementation. Join this workshop to get an update on the APIs, learn the current implementation progress, and discover some GeoServer unique features too.

Raster Attribute Tables are a way to attach a full set of attributes to raster data, giving rasters some of the vector data abilities. Come and learn how to use, mosaic and style and query RATs!

GeoServer is an open source project for publishing and processing geospatial data using standard protocols. This presentation updates the community on new features in releases 2.25 and 2.26. Join us to learn about this popular OSGeo project.

The vector mosaic datastore in GeoServer indexes multiple smaller vector stores into a seamless data source, offering cost savings and speed benefits for large datasets in the cloud. This presentation covers setup, tuning, database migration, and practical applications.

Learn how to build and serve vector tiles with GeoServer, and how GeoServer can be well suited to mixed serving use cases (raster + vector), dynamic data, as well as handling different views based on the current user security clearance.

The W3C Maps for HTML Community Group is working to define a new map HTML element that would be used to define map contents in a web page and would be directly supported and rendered by web browsers in a standardized way.

The OGC APIs are a fresh take at doing geo-spatial APIs, based on WEB API concepts and modern formats, including: Small core with basic functionality, extra functionality provided by extensions OpenAPI/RESTful based JSON first, while still allowing to provide data in other format…

The presentation will provide a comprehensive introduction to GeoServer's own authentication and authorization subsystems. The authentication part will cover the various supported authentication protocols (e.g.

The amount of data we have to process and publish keeps growing every day, fortunately, the infrastructure, technologies, and methodologies to handle such streams of data keep improving and maturing.

This presentation will cover the support GeoServer provides to publish rich data models (complex features with nested properties and multiple-cardinality relationships), through OGC services and OGC API - Features, focusing on the recent Smart Data Loader and Features Templating…

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.

This workshop is a practical introduction to advanced data styling with GeoServer using the GeoCSS styling language and Natural Earth data to build a multi-scale political map.

Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth one can build a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.

The vector mosaic datastore is a new feature in GeoServer that allows indexing many smaller vector stores (e.g., shapefiles, FlatGeoBuf, Geoparquet) and serving them as a single, seamless data source.

Working in large open source projects, with several people contributing to the code, can be challenging, especially trying to keep everyone on the same page, and generating code that has enough similarities to allow shared maintenance.

The OGC APIs are a fresh take at doing geo-spatial APIs, based on WEB API concepts and modern formats, including: Small core with basic functionality, extra functionality provided by extensions OpenAPI/RESTful based JSON first, while still allowing to provide data in other format…

GeoServer is the start of so many great open source success stories. This talk introduces the core GeoServer application and explores the ecosystem that has developed around this beloved OSGeo application.

The presentation will provide a comprehensive introduction to GeoServer's own authentication and authorization subsystems. The authentication part will cover the various supported authentication protocols (e.g.

This workshop introduces OGC APIs, their story, their objectives and structure, with plenty of practical examples from the GeoServer implementations of such standards.

The amount of data we have to process and publish keeps growing every day, fortunately, the infrastructure, technologies, and methodologies to handle such streams of data keep improving and maturing.

GeoServer deployments in the cloud and kubernetes are becoming the norm, while the amount of data published is also growing, both in terms of layers and size of data. As a result, the need for scaling up is becoming more and more common.

GeoServer is a web service for publishing your geospatial data using industry standards for vector, raster and mapping. Choose additional extensions to process data (either in batch or on the fly) and catalog records.

This workshop is a practical introduction to advanced data styling with GeoServer using the GeoCSS styling language and Natural Earth data to build a multi-scale political map.

Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth one can build a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.

The presentation aims to provide attendees with enough information to master GeoServer styling documents and most of GeoServer extensions to generate appealing, informative, readable maps that can be quickly rendered on screen.

The OGC APIs are a fresh take at doing geo-spatial APIs, based on WEB API concepts and modern formats, including: Small core with basic functionality, extra functionality provided by extensions OpenAPI/RESTful based JSON first, while still allowing to provide data in other format…

The presentation will provide a comprehensive introduction to GeoServer's own authentication and authorization subsystems. The authentication part will cover the various supported authentication protocols (e.g.

This workshop introduces the various classic OGC services, their structure and capabiliites, using GeoServer own implementation as a practical, hands-on example.

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.

GeoWebCache is a popular open source tile cache server written in Java. GeoWebCache that can be used stand alone, working off a remote WMS or local tile layers, such as MBTiles.

Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth one can build a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.