The Thünen Institute is on the verge of migrating their existing Thünen Atlas, which is based on GeoNode 3.x, to the next major release, version 4.0. In the context of this effort, they identified several features to improve the user experience, as well as the platform’s capabilities for data exploration and analysis. 52°North and the Thünen Institut collaborate on the following project to realize this set of new features.

This project covers several thematic aspects. The main focus is on:

• Improvements for the provision of maps by extending the default MapStore2 widgets and views,
• Automatic synchronization of datasets across multiple GeoNode instances to improve publication workflows,
• Support for tabular (non-spatial) datasets and visualization of these in dashboards.

The team of software engineers executes the project following agile software development methods. In addition to the technical development, a strong focus lies on communication with the GeoNode developer community as we plan to integrate the majority of features into the upstream code base.