Feature List

The OpenGeo Suite is a complete web mapping platform, comprised of multiple components working together in a flexible architecture. PostGIS reliably stores your geospatial information. GeoServer robustly serves your data through open formats and transforms them into maps. GeoWebCache accelerates delivery of map tiles. GeoExt (built on OpenLayers and Ext JS) helps you build powerful mapping applications in your browser.

The OpenGeo Suite also includes helpful web-based applications that leverage the GeoExt API. GeoExplorer composes map layers into web-based interactive applications, styles map layers in a graphical interface and allow suers to directly edits map features and data. All of this runs completely in the browser, bringing the power of desktop GIS to the web.

The following is a list of the features of the OpenGeo Suite as a whole, as well as features of each component.

• Supported open source software with unlimited bug fixes (Enterprise Edition only)
• Tools for managing server load such as Suite Analytics. (Enterprise Edition only)
• Flexible architecture: can be fully or partially integrated with other platforms
• Dashboard for integrated management of components
• Full documentation and code samples for all components
• Includes GeoExplorer, a web-based map composition and publishing application that allows for styling and editing data through the browser.
• Publish data to the web from ArcGIS Desktop with GeoCat Bridge

• High performance, robust spatial database built on PostgreSQL
• Simple Features for SQL (SFSQL) compliance
• Proven reliability and transactional integrity (ACID compliance)
• Provides spatial representations of geometry types (points, lines, polygons)
• Support for common and advanced spatial operations such as geometry creation and conversion, reprojection, buffer, convex hull, generalization, union, and more
• Geodetic support for measurements across the globe/dateline
• Command-line and graphical tools for flexible management

• Implements OGC services including Web Map Service (WMS 1.1.1 and 1.3.0), Web Feature Service (WFS 1.0.0 and 1.1.0), WFS-Transactional (WFS-T 1.0.0), and Web Coverage Service (WCS 1.0.0 and 1.1.1)
• Java J2EE application, works with Jetty, Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss
• Support for many back-end data formats (ArcSDE, Oracle Spatial, DB2, SQL Server, shapefile, GeoTIFF, MrSID, JPEG2000)
• Multiple output formats (GML, shapefile, KML, GeoJSON, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, SVG, PDF, GeoRSS) plus Google Earth integration
• Fully-featured and intuitive web administration interface with REST API for programmatic control
• Full map styling support with Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD), including text-based and graphical editor
• User- and role-based security subsystem based on Spring Security

• Implements OGC services including Web Map Tiling Service (WMTS), Web Map Service-Caching (WMS-C), and Tiled Map Service (TMS)
• Java J2EE application, works with Jetty, Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss
• Ability to serve as a compliant WMS by recombining and resampling tiles to answer arbitrary image requests
• Pre-seeding and seeding-on-demand capability
• Native output to Google Maps (including Google Mobile), Google Earth super overlays (vector and raster), Bing Maps, and Yahoo Maps.
• Fine control over tile expiration by REST API or GeoRSS notification
• Disk quotas with Least Frequently Used (LFU) and Least Recently Used (LRU) algorithms to manage disk space effectively
• Handles WMS requests with time, elevation, alternate styles and filters

• Overlay multiple standards-compliant map layers into a single application
• Displays tiles/images from WMS, WMTS, TMS, WMS-C, WMTS, Google Maps, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, OpenStreetMap, ArcGIS Server, ArcIMS
• Vector feature rendering and styling with support for KML, GeoJSON, WKT, GML, WFS, GeoRSS
• Web-based editing, including feature snapping and splitting, via WFS-Transactional (WFS-T) leveraging SVG or VML
• Pluggable with any JavaScript toolkit (JQuery, Ext, Dojo, MooTools)
• Client side map reprojection
• Feature clustering and paging

• Built with Ext JS, cross-browser rich Internet application framework
• Integrated OpenLayers mapping client
• Full dynamic user interactivity and animation without the need for Flash or Silverlight
• Well designed and extensible component model
• Wide variety of generic widgets (grids, charts, trees, layouts, combo boxes, toolbars)
• Flexible, standards-based mapping widgets like legends, pop-ups, and scale choosers
• Printing controls from PDF serving platform, such as page layouts, resolution, and legends
• Customizable layer selection

What Is The OpenGeo Suite?

Premier open source spatial relational database—fast, robust, full-featured. Learn more…

Map and feature server providing standardized web access to GIS data sources and cartographic quality maps. Learn more…

Web map accelerator, intelligently caching and serving tiles to make maps scale. Learn more…

Industry-standard Javascript map controls for viewing and editing data from multiple sources. Learn more…

Rich user interface controls for the geospatial web. Learn more…