Technology
Finally, attractive and seamless user experience in geospatial web applications. The OpenGeo stack is a flexible set of open source components all built to play well with the others.
While other GIS stacks constrain component choice to lock you in, the OpenGeo stack is designed to work with your existing or developing systems, no matter what they might be. The key is a focus on open standards at every level of the stack. This makes it easy to swap out components in order to accommodate legacy software or explore emerging implementations. The OpenGeo components each work well with other open source GIS products and even with proprietary options.
OpenLayers: Interact with Your Data
A pure javascript front end to the leading mapping services including Google Maps, Virtual Earth, Yahoo! Maps, and OGC Compliant Web Map Services
www.openlayers.orgKey Advantages:
- Integrated into GeoServer, enabling quick, customizable visualizations
- Prevents vendor lock in while accessing the great commercial APIs–OpenLayers insulates you from unfavorable changes to commercial Terms of Service by making switching trivial
GeoWebCache: Accelerate Your Maps Through Tiling
Splits your dynamic maps into tiles and caches these tiles for quick access
www.geowebcache.orgKey Advantages:
- Out of the box support for Google Maps, Google Earth, and Virtual Earth
- Reduce response times to milliseconds
GeoServer: Free your data
Fast, scalable standards-based solution to bring your data to the Geospatial Web
www.geoserver.orgKey Advantages:
- GeoServer frees your data beyond the map, making it instantly accessible for mash-ups with Google Maps, for visualizations on virtual globes like Google Earth and NASA World Wind, and on traditional desktop GIS like ArcMap and uDig.
- Key features include through-the-web live editing of data, a powerful integrated security solution, and a web-based administration tool
Connect to all major spatial backends
- PostGIS
- ArcSDE
- Oracle Spatial
- MySQL
- DB2
- Shapefiles