GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards.

Being a community-driven project, GeoServer is developed, tested, and supported by a diverse group of individuals and organizations from around the world.

Standards

GeoServer forms a core component of the Geospatial Web with full support of geospatial standards.

GeoServer is the reference implementation of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Coverage Service (WCS) standards, as well as a high performance certified compliant Web Map Service (WMS). GeoServer implements additional standards including OGC API - Features, Catalog Service for the Web (CSW), and implementing Web Processing Service (WPS). These services supports a wide range of data formats, with GeoServer actings as the reference implementation for GeoPackage and GeoTIFF formats, and implementing support for GML and de facto formats like Shapefile.

Visit GeoServer Product Details for the current certification status of GeoServer.

License

GeoServer licensed under the GPL.

Using

Please refer to the user guide for information on how to install and use GeoServer.

Building

GeoServer uses Apache Maven for a build system. To build the application run maven from the src directory.

mvn clean install

See the developer guide for more details.

Documentation

GeoServer uses Material for MkDocs for documentation written in Markdown. Use mkdocs to run the docs locally for feedback while editing:

Serve live preview locally:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
mkdocs serve

Open preview in browser:

python3 -m webbrowser http://localhost:8000

See the [documentation guide])(https://docs.geoserver.org/3.0.x/en/docguide/) for more details.

Bugs

GeoServer uses JIRA, hosted by Atlassian, for issue tracking.

Community support

The Community support page on the GeoServer web site provides access to the various channels of communication, as well as some indication of the code of conduct when posting to the groups.

Contributing

Please read the contribution guidelines before contributing pull requests to the GeoServer project.

More Information

Visit the website and read the docs.