What is GeoServer?
It is developed, tested, and supported as community-driven project by a diverse group of individuals and organizations. It is designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards.
GeoServer is a tool in the Web Servers category of a tech stack.
GeoServer is an open source tool with 3.6K GitHub stars and 2.1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to GeoServer's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses GeoServer?
Companies
19 companies reportedly use GeoServer in their tech stacks, including Labs, Climatempo, and Platform.
Developers
66 developers on StackShare have stated that they use GeoServer.
GeoServer Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to GeoServer?
ArcGIS
It is a geographic information system for working with maps and geographic information. It is used for creating and using maps, compiling geographic data, analyzing mapped information, sharing and much more.
PostGIS
PostGIS is a spatial database extender for PostgreSQL object-relational database. It adds support for geographic objects allowing location queries to be run in SQL.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
