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Extending Express Server Functionality with GeoServer

Jared Dominguez — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:25:48 +0000

Got five minutes? That’s all it takes to add GeoServer to an existing installation of Express Server. GeoServer is an open source server for geospatial data and imagery. It includes support for Shapefiles, GeoTIFF, PostGIS, and much more. You can use GeoServer to distribute imagery via standard protocols, including WMS, WFS, and WCS. In the [...]

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Viewing Express Server Imagery with Leaflet

Jared Dominguez — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:11:56 +0000

Did you know that you can view Express Server imagery with Leaflet via WMS? Leaflet is an open-source JavaScript library for creating rich, interactive web maps. In the example below, we’ve used Leaflet to display a raster layer of Washington state, a raster basemap layer, and a marker icon that identifies the location of the [...]

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2011 Code Sprint

Mike Rosen — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:12:33 +0000

Fellow LizardTech developer Kirk and I just got back from the third annual OSGeo Code Sprint; this time in Montreal, Canada. Daniel Morissette did a great job of organizing this event and has already posted an excellent review of the sprint (here) including pictures (here), so I’ll simply add that that it was great fun [...]

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Not walking, mapping!

admin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:30:59 +0000

You’ve heard of Open Street Map, right? You can think of it as Wikipedia for maps: people from all over the world map their own neighborhoods, and the results are made available for free, to all, with no copyright restrictions. For most of the US the road network has been pretty well mapped already, via [...]

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LizardTech Engineering’s introduction to LiDAR Compressor

Mike Rosen — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:03:35 +0000

This morning, July 13, 2009, LizardTech unveiled LiDAR Compressor. This application allows consumers of LiDAR data the same benefits LT has provided raster consumers for over 10 years. The press release describes some of the product’s overall capabilities and benefits. I was privileged to be the project manager for this effort and in this post will describe the [...]

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Reminiscences of Spring Break at the ESRI Dev Summit

Mike Rosen — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:13:02 +0000

Glen Thompson and I were fortunate to attend the ESRI Developer’s Summit in Palm Springs last month. In addition to being a great excuse to get out of the rain here in Seattle, the Dev Summit provides a great opportunity to catch up with our friends from Redlands and see what’s new with ArcGIS. Those [...]

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Post-sprint reflections

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:22:31 +0000

LizardTech was one of the sponsors of an OSGeo code sprint in Toronto last week. Mike Rosen and I were both fortunate enough to attend and spend some quality time with twenty of the brightest minds of the open source geo world, folks working on everything from GDAL to MapServer to PostGIS to OpenLayers. Perhaps [...]

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Toronto open source code sprint in March

Matt Fleagle — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:18:59 +0000

It is an oft-invoked stereotype that engineers prefer to work alone in dark caves, and there’s certainly some truth there. Here at LizardTech, for example, each development team member works in a well-ventillated but cozy and earthy burrow that our ops team constructed to individual specifications out of papier-mache. Some of these workspaces have convincing stalactites, or narrow [...]

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GeoWeb 2008 trip report (or, What I did on my summer vacation)

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:37:14 +0000

Last week I had the pleasure of attending GeoWeb 2008 on behalf of both LizardTech and OSGeo. The conference was once again in Vancouver BC, at my favorite business hotel and conference venue. I’ve attended this conference for a number of years now, and it gets better every passing year. Just a few highlights: The [...]

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Thoughts on the ESRI Developer Summit and OGC in ArcGIS Server

Mike Rosen — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:29:12 +0000

Last week, some of us went south to Palm Springs to escape the rain and enjoy the company of the crew from Redlands at the ESRI Developer Summit. Much of the conference has been blogged about elsewhere, but I did want to share my observations of the talk on OGC capabilities in ArcGIS Server 9.3. [...]

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