State of GeoNode 4.0 (FOSS4G 2022 Edition)

GeoNode is a Web Spatial Content Management System based entirely on Open Source tools whose purpose is to promote the sharing of data and their management in a simple environment where even non-expert users of GIS technologies can view, edit, manage, and share spatial data, maps, prints and documents attached.

GeoNode is an open source project initiated in 2010 by the World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery group (GFDRR), but from 2011 is entirely run by the developer community that the project has been able to attract. It claims some large organizations among its contributors such as the United Nations, the World Bank and the European Commission as well as many NGOs and private companies. Supported by a vast, diverse and global open source community, GeoNode is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).

Using an open source stack based on mature and robust frameworks and software like Django, MapStore, PostGIS, GeoServer and pycsw, an organization can build on top of GeoNode its own SDI or geospatial portal. GeoNode provides a large number of user-friendly capabilities, broad interoperability using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards, and a powerful authentication/authorization mechanism.

The purpose of this presentation is to introduce the attendees to those which are the GeoNode current capabilities and to some practical use cases of particular interest in order to also highlight the possibility of customization and integration. Finally, we will provide a summary of new features added to GeoNode in the last release up to the latest releases of GeoNode together with a glimpse of what we have planned for next year and beyond, straight from the core developers.

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1. Giovanni Allegri
   Alessio Fabiani
   GeoSolutions
   State of GeoNode 4.0
   FOSS4G Florence 2022
   

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2. GeoSolutions
   Enterprise Support
   Services
   Deployment
   Subscription
   Professional
   Training
   Customized
   Solutions
   GeoNode
   • Offices in Italy & US, Global Clients/Team
   • 40+ collaborators, 30+ Engineers
   • Our products
   • Our Offer
   

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3. Affiliations
   We strongly support Open
   Source, it Is in our core
   We actively participate in
   OGC working groups and
   get funded to advance new
   open standards
   We support standards
   critical to GEOINT
   

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4. What’s GeoNode
   

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5. GeoNode at a Glance
   GeoNode is a platform for the management and publication
   of geospatial data.
   It brings together mature open-source software projects
   under an easy to use interface.
   With GeoNode, non-specialized users can share data and
   create interactive maps.
   

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6. Capabilities
   • Import geospatial datasets, documents and media
   • Create thematic maps , dashboards and geostories
   • Manage granular security, permissions and sharing for
   users and groups
   • User with appropriate permissions can edit layer metadata,
   which are exposed by OGC CSW and REST, to provide
   search/discovery capability
   • Users with appropriate permissions can edit layer styles and
   data (for vector layers)
   • GeoNode exposes a number of standards for each layer:
   OGC (WMS, WMS-C, WFS, WFS-T, WCS, CSW) and mass
   market search standards (OAI-PMH, SRU, OpenSearch)
   • Full control through a RESTful API
   

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7. Capabilities
   DATASETS
   DOCUMENTS
   LOCAL FILES
   Upload from local filesystem
   REMOTE SERVICES
   OGC WMS
   GeoNode
   ArcGIS Server
   Custom harvesters
   REMOTE FILES (wip)
   Links (URLs) to remote files
   

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8. Capabilities
   DATASETS
   DOCUMENTS
   MAPS
   GEOSTORIES
   DASHBOARDS
   GEOAPPS
   

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9. Capabilities
   MAPS
   GEOSTORIES
   DASHBOARDS
   GEOAPPS
   WMS WMTS WFS CSW
   embedded viewers
   

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10. GeoNode at a Glance
    • It’s also a web framework based on Python and Django
    to allow people to implement SDIs and bespoke
    Geospatial applications.
    

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11. GeoNode at a Glance
    

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12. GeoNode at a Glance
    

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13. The Community
    • GeoNode code is made of several components, hosted on
    GitHub under the GeoNode organization
    • The GeoNode Project Steering Committee (PSC) governs
    the GeoNode project.
    • Users and developers mailing list, and a Gitter chat are the
    main communication channels for the community.
    https://github.com/GeoNode
    

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14. Releases History
    • August 2022, GeoNode 4.0.0
    • June 2022, GeoNode 3.3.2/4.0RC1
    • February 2022, GeoNode 3.2.3/3.3.1/4.0RC0
    • November 2021, GeoNode 3.2.2/3.3.0
    • July 2021, GeoNode 3.2.1
    • April 2021, GeoNode 3.2.0 (Django 2.2.16, GeoServer 2.18.2) / GeoNode 3.1.1 (last 3.1 release)
    • May 2020, GeoNode 3.0 (Django 2.2.13, GeoServer 2.16.2) / GeoNode 2.10.4 (last 2.10 release)
    • February 2020, GeoNode 2.10.2 (Django 1.11.29, GeoServer 2.15.4, pycsw 2.4.2)
    • June 2019, GeoNode 2.10 (Django 1.11.20, GeoServer 2.14, pycsw 2.2.0)
    • April 2018, GeoNode 2.8 (Django 1.8.19, GeoServer 2.12.2, pycsw 2.0.2, group moderation and resources
    publication workflow, SLD upload, metadata wizard)
    • May 2017, GeoNode 2.6 (Django 1.8.7, GeoServer 2.9, pycsw 2.0.2, React client, QGIS server backend,
    ansible and docker setup, Ubuntu 16.04 support)
    • November 2015, GeoNode 2.4 (Django 1.6.11, GeoServer 2.7, pycsw 1.10.5, django-guardian, groups, remote
    services, responsive template, Ubuntu 14.04 support)
    • April 2014, GeoNode 2.0 (Django 1.5.5, GeoServer 2.5, pycsw 1.8.6, django-polymorphic, bootstrap, Ubuntu
    12.04 support)
    • October 2012, GeoNode 1.2 (Django 1.4, GeoServer 2.3, South migrations, django-taggit, social features,
    comments and ratings, find/add layers widget)
    • May 2012, GeoNode 1.1.1 (Ubuntu 10.04 and 11.04 installer)
    • December 2010, GeoNode 1.0, with major contributions from OpenGeo, the World Bank, GFDRR, UNISDR,
    and GEM
    • August 2010, GeoNode 1.0-beta
    

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15. Releases History
    

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16. Demo instances
    • You can play with the online demo instances
    • master https://master.demo.geonode.org
    • 4.0.x https://development.demo.geonode.org
    • 3.3.2 https://stable.demo.geonode.org
    

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17. GeoNode 4.0
    

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18. What’s new for users?
    • A brand new User Interface and several UX
    enhancements
    • Simplified interaction with tools and functionality. Less
    page transitions and steps to search, navigate, preview
    and perform daily operations on resources (one-click-
    away actions)
    • Decluttering of the UI and removal of duplicated tools
    and UX flows
    • New Web Mobile version
    

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19. What’s new for users?
    • A Single Page Application for the catalogue of
    resources
    

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20. What’s new for users?
    • with dynamic Filtering / Infinite Scrolling
    

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21. What’s new for users?
    • and inline live preview of resources
    

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22. What’s new for users?
    • The main page becomes a view of the Personal
    Workspace
    

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23. What’s new for users?
    • Optimized for mobile
    

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24. What’s new for users?
    • With integrated viewers and editors
    

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25. What’s new for users?
    • With integrated viewers and editors
    

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26. What’s new for users?
    • Edit and publish stylings for geospatial dataset styling
    with live preview, thanks to the advanced MapStore
    styler
    

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27. What’s new for users?
    • Integrated viewers and editors
    • Wizard and full metadata metadata editing (Dublin Core, ISO 19115)
    • Support for additional and custom metadata schemes (e.g. RNDT,
    DataCite, etc.)
    

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28. What’s new for users?
    • Thesauri
    • Handle multiple thesauri
    • Re-implemented thesaurus import/export using rdflib to support a wider
    range of RDF formats
    • Improved i18n in thesauri titles
    • Improved cardinality handling
    

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29. What’s new for users?
    • Simplified upload for datasets and media
    • Asynchronous upload: for heavy datasets you can return back later to see the
    progress
    • Optional upload size limits and per user rate limiting (dimension and number of
    parallel uploads)
    • Improvements to performance and stability also for big datasets
    • GeoPackage vector layers batch import (WIP)
    

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30. What’s new for users?
    • Permissions and Sharing options
    • Security: Fine-grained permissions per user, group / organization and role
    • ACL enforced in front of any exposed endpoint: UI, REST API and OGC services
    • Geofencing: restrict access to specific areas of spatial datasets
    

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31. What’s new for users?
    • Dashboards
    

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32. What’s new for users?
    • Geostories
    

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33. What’s new for users?
    • QGIS GeoNode Plugin
    https://geonode.org/QGISGeoNodePlugin/
    

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34. What’s new for users?
    • QGIS GeoNode Plugin
    • Search, preview and load GeoNode resources in QGIS
    • Upload datasets
    • Edit style and data
    Credits: Pacific Resilience Community (SPC), World Bank, Kartoza and Geosolutions
    

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35. What’s new for users?
    • GeoNode 4.0 also introduces Harvesters
    • Publish and manage remote resources (WMS,
    GeoNode instances, ArcGIS MapServer)
    • Create custom harvesters for your own APIs, e.g.
    PostgREST, with scheduled jobs
    • Either publish the remote service or import data and
    publish as local resource
    

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36. What’s new for users?
    • GeoNode 4.0 introduces Harvesters
    

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37. What’s new for system integrators?
    • GeoNode 4.0 offers extended options to
    simplify it’s integration into external systems.
    • A fully revised CRUD REST API
    • Resource Catalogue search and management
    • Users / Groups search and management
    • Upload
    • Permissions management
    • GeoNode management commands over HTTP(S)
    • Async operations tracking and management
    • Security managed by GeoNode’s share / permissions system
    • Session, Oauth2 and Basic Auth authentication (with pluggable
    extensions)
    • Improved Docker based deployments, which makes installing and
    running a basic GeoNode / GeoNode Project instance quick and
    easy
    

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38. What’s new for system integrators?
    • REST API OA3 schema and DRF views
    

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39. What’s new for developers?
    • GeoNode 4.0 provides several ways to extend and
    customize both the backend and the frontend
    • Backend
    • GeoNode relies on the modular system offered by Django and
    Django Rest Framework, where new functionality can be easily
    integrated by developing new Python modules and apps
    • The concept of “GeoApps” also enables the integration of new
    resource-based applications within the catalogue services
    • The Resource “blob” field and the metadata model permits to
    extend resources with additional custom fields
    • New apps can extend and leverage the REST API service and
    the asynchronous engine that drives GeoNode backend
    services.
    

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40. What’s new for developers?
    • Asynchronous subsystem
    

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41. What’s new for developers?
    • GeoNode 4.0 offers several options to extend and
    customize both the backend and the frontend
    • Frontend
    • GeoNode fronted is a hybrid application, where client side code
    (mainly React and MapStore) is mixed with server side page
    rendering
    • Branding and new custom pages can be developed with the
    Django templating functionality, on top of the layout and
    theming system provided by GeoNode
    • Custom client side plugins (even integrated with the MapStore
    framework) can be developed without having to bundle them
    within the client app code
    

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42. What’s new for developers?
    • Branding and Theming
    

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43. What’s new for developers?
    • Custom pages
    

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44. What’s new for developers?
    • Custom client plugins
    

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45. Upgrade
    • Are you using an older version? Upgrade!
    • User/Developer lists and Gitter typically covers only
    supported versions. Today it means only 3.3.2 and 4.0
    • Security fixes and installation support on new OSs
    being added to supported versions only!
    • Moving data from old versions will be much harder if
    not impossible
    • Web interfaces and GIS clients will be much different.
    No one will be able to backport fixes or improvements
    to the old ones.
    • Please upgrade your GeoNode installations!!!
    

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46. The End
    Questions?
    giovanni.allegri@geosolutionsgroup.com
    alessio.fabiani@geosolutionsgroup.com
    info@geosolutionsgroup.com
    

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