Zoom http://www.lizardtech.com/blog A starting point for geospatial insight Tue, 24 Sep 2013 02:48:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Extending Express Server Functionality with GeoServer http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2013/extending-express-server-functionality-geoserver/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2013/extending-express-server-functionality-geoserver/#comments Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:25:48 +0000 Jared Dominguez http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/?p=479 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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]]> http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2013/viewing-express-server-imagery-leaflet/feed/ 0 New Lizard Mika http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2013/new-lizard-mika/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2013/new-lizard-mika/#comments Fri, 26 Jul 2013 21:40:18 +0000 Jared Dominguez http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/?p=390 It’s summertime in Seattle, and you know what that means—interns! The LizardTech team is thrilled to welcome Mika to the marketing team. In the month that she’s been here, she’s done a great job helping out with press kits, organizing our GIS literature, and all in all making our lives just a little bit easier. [...]

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]]> http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2013/new-lizard-mika/feed/ 0 GeoExpress 9 at the Esri 2013 User Conference http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2013/geoexpress-9-at-the-esri-2013-user-conference/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2013/geoexpress-9-at-the-esri-2013-user-conference/#comments Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:26:44 +0000 Jared Dominguez http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/?p=375 Hello again San Diego! LizardTech returns to the Esri User Conference this year carrying precious cargo. We’ll be offering a sneak peek at the latest, shiniest version of our image compression and manipulation software, GeoExpress. Now in version 9, GeoExpress offers a serious speed boost and a much simpler workflow. Some of the benefits of [...]

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]]> http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2013/lizardtech-geoviewer-for-android/feed/ 1 New version of LizardTech GeoViewer for iOS http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2012/new-version-of-lizardtech-geoviewer-for-ios/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2012/new-version-of-lizardtech-geoviewer-for-ios/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:58:45 +0000 Matt Fleagle http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/?p=224 When we released LizardTech GeoViewer for iOS last January it enabled iPad users to view geospatial imagery in MrSID and JPEG 2000 formats and included distance measuring tools and geolocation support. We’ve released a new version that runs on iPhone and iPod Touch devices as well as iPads, and we improved the UI with easier-to-see tool icons. As an in-app [...]

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]]> http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2012/we-just-keep-talking-about-express-server-8/feed/ 0 Express Server’s new face will put a smile on yours http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2012/express-servers-new-face-will-put-a-smile-on-yours/ http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/2012/express-servers-new-face-will-put-a-smile-on-yours/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:17:51 +0000 Matt Fleagle http://www.lizardtech.com/blog/?p=167 Our Express Server product, a web-server add-on for distributing massive image datasets, has always been a fairly straightforward, simple product — it takes advantage of efficiencies inherent in MrSID and other image formats to make high-resolution raster imagery available at lightning speeds. But we found in listening to feedback from our customers that many of them [...]

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