MapStore 2025.01 release webinar

Join GeoSolutions for a 60‑minute live session on the latest MapStore release (2025.01). We’ll walk through the redesigned Home Page, new interactive and dynamic legends, improved print preview, advanced MapViews controls, and expanded 3D support with Cesium Ion terrain and lighting. You’ll also see productivity improvements like session restore, text widget image uploads, and time‑zone handling in Attribute Tables.

The webinar will include a live demo by the MapStore team and a dedicated Q&A segment where you can ask your questions.

Who should attend: GIS administrators, developers, and project managers working with MapStore, GeoServer, or GeoNode.

Reserve your spot to see what’s new and how to leverage these features in your projects!

Transcript

1. MapStore Series 2025.01 Tobia Di Pisa Stefano Bovio Ryan Burley GeoSolutions September 30th 2025
2. GeoSolutions - open-source experts • Software boutique building open-source geospatial products since 2006 • Delivering scalable, secure and interoperable solutions for public and private sectors • Products • Services Enterprise Support Services Deployment Subscription Professional Training Customized Solutions September 30th 2025
3. Agenda • Introducing MapStore • MapStore at work • What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 • Ongoing works for MapStore in 2025-2026 September 30th 2025
4. Introducing MapStore September 30th 2025
5. What is MapStore? WebGIS to create and share maps, charts, dashboards and stories online Mobile first Responsive Pluggable Look & Feel Mapping engine agnostic OpenLayers|Leaflet|Cesium License is Simplified BSD Commercial friendly! Leveraging React ecosystem Consume data from many sources (OSM, Bing, WFS, CSW, WMS, WMTS…) September 30th 2025
6. What is MapStore? Many use case scenarios are covered for achieving your mapping goals Works with of OGC standards to ensure good interoperability skills Easy to set up and configure Ready to use and easy to customize and extend Open Source project Compatible with the most common browsers Many features available out-of-the box September 30th 2025
7. How can I use MapStore? As a Product As a Framework Use it as is and customize the look&feel You can build many different applications with its plugins and utilities (and by developing your own) September 30th 2025
8. MapStore at work September 30th 2025
9. MapStore at Work Map Viewer Flexible, highly modular viewer configurable for many different use case scenarios … Dashboards Create engaging dashboards combining different types of widgets to inspect and aggregate data September 30th 2025
10. MapStore at Work GeoStories create inspiring and immersive stories by combining text, interactive maps and multimedia content (e.g. images, video or other third party content). Application Context Tool designed to build and configure different MapStore viewer configurations for the same MapStore installation through an advanced wizard September 30th 2025
11. What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
12. What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 What has been released so far in 2025? One major series: 2025.01.00 Released in June 2025 2025.01.01 Released in July 2025 (next minor release expected for early October, 2025) = Many powerful updates! September 30th 2025
13. • MapStore Home Page layout completely reviewed and UX improved Filtering Resources Organizing Resources Viewing Resources information What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
14. • MapStore Home Page layout completely reviewed and UX improved Filtering Resources Searching Resources Organizing Resources Browsing Resources Viewing Resources information Accessing customized catalog state What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
15. https://mapstore.geosolutionsgroup.com/mapstore/?#/?q=D emo&f=map&filter%7Bgroup.in%7D=geosolutions&filter%7Bt ag.in%7D=Demo&filter%7Bcreation.gte%7D=2024-08-01T00% 3A00%3A00&filter%7Bcreation.lte%7D=2024-08-31T23%3A59 %3A59 • MapStore Home Page with many new filtering capabilities! • My resources • Free text search • Groups • Application context • Tags • Date Period Filter state now in Catalog URL! What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
16. • MapStore Home Page with improved resource Details for a better UI/UX What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
17. • MapStore Home Page with improved resource Details for a better UI/UX What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 Main info September 30th 2025
18. • MapStore Home Page with improved resource Details for a better UI/UX What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 Permissions Main info September 30th 2025
19. • MapStore Home Page with improved resource Details for a better UI/UX What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 About Permissions Main info September 30th 2025
20. Alternative catalog mode for improving the overall UX • MapStore Home Page … for a better UX in managing contents! What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
21. Manage all resources together! Alternative catalog mode for improving the overall UX • MapStore Home Page … for a better UX in managing contents! What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
22. Improved sorting options! Manage all resources together! Alternative catalog mode for improving the overall UX • MapStore Home Page … for a better UX in managing contents! What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
23. Improved sorting options! Manage all resources together! Alternative catalog mode for improving the overall UX Better controls on resource items. Highly customizable also for downstream projects! • MapStore Home Page … for a better UX in managing contents! What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
24. What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 … a few more high-level details for MapStore developers … trying to make them happy … September 30th 2025
25. • MapStore Home Page … a few more details on the Home configurability… What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
26. • MapStore Home Page … with the possibility to inject items from your own plugins … What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025 Adds a menu item in the hidden dropdown list Adds a visible button on the card
27. • MapStore Home Page … with the possibility to inject items from your own plugins … What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025 Adds a new item in the resource card menu Replaces the resource card component wrapper
28. • MapStore Home Page … a few more details on the Resource properties configurability… What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025 Ability to choose what information to provide in resource details also based on the user's role
29. • MapStore Home Page … a few more details on the Resource filter configurability… same possibilities! What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
30. • MapStore Layout and Look & Feel significantly reviewed to provide a better accessibility. Unified user Menus What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
31. • MapStore Layout and Look & Feel significantly reviewed to provide a better accessibility. Improved About management for the whole application Unified user Menus What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
32. • MapStore Layout and Look & Feel significantly reviewed to provide a better accessibility. Improved About management for the whole application Unified user Menus New Brand Navbar component What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
33. • MapStore Layout and Look & Feel … for a lighter theme Responsiveness improved What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
34. • MapStore Layout and Look & Feel … for a lighter theme More space available with smaller side panels What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025 Responsiveness improved
35. • MapStore Layout and Look & Feel … for a lighter theme Removed primary color from many components More space available with smaller side panels What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025 Responsiveness improved
36. • MapStore Layout and Look & Feel … reskinned Account manager What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
37. Improved user feedback on modified resources • MapStore Layout and Look & Feel … for better notifications! What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
38. Improved user feedback on modified resources Renewed confirmation dialog when leaving resources • MapStore Layout and Look & Feel … for better notifications! What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
39. Improved user feedback on modified resources Renewed confirmation dialog when leaving resources Improved UX with new confirmation dialog when closing the browser window • MapStore Layout and Look & Feel … for better notifications! What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
40. What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 … but there aren’t only L&F and UI/UX updates in 2025.01 … September 30th 2025
41. • MapStore 3D updates with new Terrain provider … https://docs.mapstore.geosolutionsgroup.com/en/v 2025.01.00/developer-guide/maps-configuration/#ce sium-ion-terrain-provider New Cesium Ion Terrain provider What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
42. • …and Map settings https://docs.mapstore.geosolutionsgroup.com/en/v 2025.01.00/developer-guide/maps-configuration/#ce sium-ion-terrain-provider Light source option for 3D map New Cesium Ion Terrain provider What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
43. • MapStore Layer Legend update with new Dynamic and Interactive functions Working on top of GetLegendGraphic in JSON format and content dependent legend GeoServer capabilities (requires GeoServer) What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
44. • MapStore Printing update for an improved UX and a new function also available Option to exclude desired layers from the printed legend Printing preview map now disconnected from the underlying main map What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
45. • MapStore User Session update with an improved support and a finest control on session items • Different clear options map specific • Search services also supported • Attribute Table • Table of Contents and others plugins • Widgets • Catalog services What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
46. • MapStore MapViews update for an improved control of views layers with a more advanced TOC More advanced TOC controls with embedded support for Terrains What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
47. • MapStore MapViews update for an improved control of views layers with a more advanced TOC Ability to selectively disconnect layers from the main TOC What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025 Controls to sync with the main TOC
48. • Various dependency updates and clean up. Consolidated dependency management and code clean up Reviewed and improved the overall application dependency management Various dependency updates for both FE and BE Extensive code clean up. Dead code and old packages removed What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 September 30th 2025
49. What’s new in MapStore 2025.01 Check out the new version from Github and enjoy the new functionalities released for MapStore 2025.01! The complete release notes are available on Github at: https://github.com/geosolutions-it/MapStore2/releases/tag/v 2025.01.01 September 30th 2025
50. Ongoing works for MapStore in 2025-2026 September 30th 2025
51. Ongoing works for MapStore in 2025-2026 September 30th 2025 Q3 • Enjoy the new project Entry page! Available at: https://mapstore.io/, https://mapstore.cloud/ and https://mapstore.it/
52. • New Terrain Switcher component for managing terrain layers from UI and switching between them Q4 Improving the current Background Switcher September 30th 2025 Ongoing works for MapStore in 2025-2026
53. • Enhancements for the GeoFence Rule Manager Q3 Filtering auth rules by IP address Requires GeoServer v2.27 and GeoFence v3.8.0 Managing auth rules by validity period automatically disabling them September 30th 2025 Ongoing works for MapStore in 2025-2026
54. • Enhancements for the GeoFence Rule Manager September 30th 2025 Ongoing works for MapStore in 2025-2026 Q3 Ability to manage multiple GeoServer instances for defining Auth Rules Enhanced the existing GeoFence standalone support in MapStore for the purpose
55. • Further enhancements for the Administrative section Q3 September 30th 2025 Ongoing works for MapStore in 2025-2026 Improved accessibility in User Menu Moved Tags management in the central Admin page
56. • Managing Resource Permissions by IP address Q3 September 30th 2025 Ongoing works for MapStore in 2025-2026
57. • New Itinerary and Isochrone context plugins with support of GraphHopper API Q3 September 30th 2025 Ongoing works for MapStore in 2025-2026
58. Ongoing works for MapStore in 2025-2026 • Further enhancement for the overall project structure and the BE dependencies management GeoStore Http-Proxy https://github.com/geosolutions-it/MapStore2 https://github.com/geosolutions-it/geostore https://github.com/geosolutions-it/http-proxy September 30th 2025 Expected for 2026 Q1
59. • Further updates for the MapStore’s theme and layout ◦ New default theme ◦ Possibility to switch to dark theme from user menu ◦ Further harmonization of buttons ◦ Further updates on dialogs and card items ◦ New font-family ◦ New project entry page ◦ Overall layout renew Expected for 2026 Q1 September 30th 2025 Ongoing works for MapStore in 2025-2026 Expected for 2025 Q3
60. More Info - Online resources • Demo site: https://mapstore.geosolutionsgroup.com • User documentation: https://docs.mapstore.geosolutionsgroup.com/en/v2025.01.01/user-guide/ho me-page/ • Developers documentation: https://docs.mapstore.geosolutionsgroup.com/en/v2025.01.01/developer-guid e/requirements/ • GitHub Repo: https://github.com/geosolutions-it/MapStore2 • Youtube Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe2yzutVrnZ5tjYGYYcKmZzo_M9ku5I9X • Mailing Lists: https://groups.google.com/g/mapstore-users https://groups.google.com/g/mapstore-developers September 30th 2025
61. That’s all folks! Questions? info@geosolutionsgroup.com tobia.dipisa@geosolutionsgroup.com stefano.bovio@geosolutionsgroup.com ryan.burley@geosolutionsgroup.com September 30th 2025