An overview of GeoNode 2.0 GFOSS Day 2013, Bologna, Italy October 10th, 2013 Luca Casagrande, Paolo Corti, Simone Dalmasso

1. Geonode 2.0
GFOSS Day 2013, Bologna, Italy
October 10th, 2013
Luca Casagrande, Paolo Corti, Simone Dalmasso

2. What?
● GeoNode is a geospatial CMS
● a platform for the management and publication of geospatial data (SDI)
● open source platform built on other open source components
● allows non-specialized users to share data and create interactive maps
● data management tools for integrated creation of data, metadata, and map
visualizations
● each dataset in the system can be shared publicly or restricted to allow
access to only specific users
● social features like user profiles and commenting and rating systems allow for
the development of communities
● easily customizable

3. Who?
● Organizations using it: World Bank, CE JRC, UN WFP,
Ithaca, Harvard University, MapStory, OpenGeo
(Boundless)
● 50+ contributors, 10 developers with 100+ commits:
https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/graphs/contributors

4. Where?
● Web site: http://geonode.org/
● GitHub: https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode
● Issue tracker: https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/issues
● Documentation: http://docs.geonode.org/
● Demo site: http://beta.dev.geonode.org/

5. When?
● November 2010: GeoNode 1.0
● February 2012: GeoNode 1.1
● October 2012: GeoNode 1.2
● Now: GeoNode 2.0 beta 54
● In few weeks: GeoNode RC
● Before the end of the year: GeoNode 2.0

6. Architecture
● 100% Open Source!
http://docs.geonode.org/en/latest/reference/architecture.html#architecture
● * Python, Django, WSGI, Apache, OWSlib, gsconfig
● * GDAL, OGR, GEOS, PROJ.4
● * Tomcat, GeoServer, GeoTools
● * PostgreSQL, PostGIS
● * pycsw, GeoNetwork
● * Javascript, jQuery, OpenLayers, ExtJS, GeoExt, GeoExplorer
● * HTML, CSS, Bootstrap
● * GeoGit enabled

7. Architecture

8. Web services included
● OGC WMS - Web Map Service (GeoServer)
● OGC WFS/WFS-T - Web Feature Service (GeoServer)
● OGC WCS - Web Coverage Service (GeoServer)
● OGC CSW - Catalog Service for the Web (pycsw, GeoNetwork)
● OGC WMST - Web Map Tiling Service (GeoWebCache)
● REST GeoServer API

9. Web Services consumption
● GeoNode itself (federation)!
● Desktop GIS (QGIS, uDig, gvSIG, OPEN Jump, ArcGIS...)
● Client libraries (GDAL, OWSLib, GeoTools, OpenLayers, Leaflet,
gsconfig)

10. Spatial Database included
Input data format:
● shapefile, tiff, csv, kml
● any GeoServer data source, using the updatelayers
command line (PostGIS Raster, Oracle Spatial,
ArcSDE...)
Data are uploaded to a PostGIS Spatial database

11. Django Apps
● GeoNode internal Django apps (Base, Layers, Maps, Documents...)
● GeoNode itself is based on several Django apps (avatar, dialogos,
django_notification, django_pagination, django_taggit,...)
● It is easy to customize your own instance using other popular
Django apps (django-cms, django-mingus, django-schedule,
django-revision, django-social-auth, pyston)

12. Documentation
● documentation web site: http://docs.geonode.org/
● written in reST and built whit Sphinx
● translated using the i18n Sphinx support and the
Transifex platform:
https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/geonode/

13. Roadmap
● 2.1: Groups
● 2.1: Improved federation system
● 2.1: GeoNode API (GNIP 18,
https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/wiki/GNI
P-18---GeoNode-API)
● 2.1+: support for other web map engine
(MapServer, Mapnik)