In June, Steven Shyu joined OpenPlans as a UX developer at OpeGeo. He’s passionate about creating applications that are functional and enjoyable to use. Steven comes to us from Bloomberg News and will work from OpenGeo’sWashington DC office. Let’s jump right in, what will you be working on here at OpenPlans? I’ll be part of Read more…
Pratt Institute’s Jaime Stein, John Shapiro, and Lacey Tauber stopped by OpenBag to introduce their newest urban design programs. They are all a part of Pratt’s Programs for Sustainable Planning and Development, described as “an alliance of four programs with a shared value placed on urban sustainability — defined by the ‘triple bottom line’ of environment, equity Read more…
The OpenGeo team is excited to announce the release of OpenGeo Suite 2.4.4. This is the first new version in a few months so there have been lots of stability improvements and updates. GeoServer: Added Basic HTTP authentication with cascaded WMS servers GeoServer: Support for loading “non-advertised” layers GeoServer: Web Processing Service (WPS) now included GeoServer: Better Read more…
The OpenGeo Suite team has migrated all of our source code over to Git from Subversion, and we are now hosting the code on GitHub. This follows the trend of lots of open source software projects toward a distributed version control system. Switching from Subversion to Git has all sorts of benefits for the development team, Read more…
Today we’re excited to roll out the orange carpet and welcome Matt Priour to OpenPlans, as part of the OpenGeo team. Matt has a breadth of experience in both the open source and proprietary web mapping worlds with special expertise in the front-end components of the OpenGeo Suite. He has already made a big impact working on Read more…
Today OpenGeo, the leader in open source geospatial technology, completed Phase II development for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s (SFMTA) SFpark project asset management system. SFpark uses geospatial and sensory technology to collect and distributes real-time parking availability information to drivers. It also uses this data to regularly update meter and garage pricing to ensure parking Read more…