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About the Authors
Stefano Iacovella is a long-me GIS developer and consultant living in Rome, Italy. He also
works as a GIS course instructor.
He has a Ph.D in Geology. Being a very curious person, he has developed a deep knowledge
of IT technologies, mainly focused on GIS Soware and related standards.
Starng his career as an ESRI employee, he was exposed to and became condent with
proprietary GIS Soware, mainly the ESRI suite of products.
For the last 10 years, he has been involved with open source soware and also the task of
integrang it with commercial soware. He loves the open source approach, and really trusts
in the collaboraon and sharing of knowledge. He strongly believes in the concept of open
source, and constantly strives to spread it, and not only in the GIS sector.
He has been using GeoServer since the release of Version 1.5; conguring, deploying, and
hacking it in several projects. Some of the other GFOSS projects he mainly uses and likes are
GDAL/OGR libraries, PostGIS, QGIS, and OpenLayers.
When not playing with maps and geometric shapes, he loves reading about science, mainly
physics and math, riding his bike, and having fun with his wife and his two daughters, Alice
and Luisa.
I would like to thank many people who have helped me to make this book
a reality.
A special menon for GeoServer's developers; they are the wonderful
engine without which this book would not exist.
I would like to thank Usha Iyer, Dayan Hyames, Amey Sawant, and everyone
else at Packt Publishing for all their hard work to get this book published.
My gratude to Luca Morandini, a colleague and friend; he spurred me to
take this challenge.
Last but not the least, I want to express my gratude to Alessandra, Alice,
and Luisa for their support and paence.
