# GeoServer Reviews **Vendor:** GeoServer **Category:** [GIS Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/gis) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 25 ## About GeoServer Designed for interoperability, GeoServer publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards. GeoServer implements industry standard OGC protocols such as Web Feature Service (WFS), Web Map Service (WMS), and Web Coverage Service (WCS). Additional formats and publication options are available as extensions including Web Processing Service (WPS), and Web Map Tile Service (WMTS). ## GeoServer Reviews ### 1. Share your geospatial data without any hiccup's **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bipin K. | Software Engineer (GIS) , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2021 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** 1. Open source 2. Support almost all geospatial data format 3. Support all primary operating system 4. Graphical user interface **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** The major cons of geoserver is that it has lack of support from the backend. **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am sharing all geospatial data, i.e., vector/raster as Web map Services/ Web Feature Services. And I am rendering to the client-side. ### 2. Great opensource solution **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard M. | GIS CAD/Technicain, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** -The fact that geoserver is open source and is based on OGC and has a clear laid out user documentation provided on their site. Being open source is a bonus when compared to ESRI solutions which can cost substantially more, this is a huge plus for a SME especially given current circumstances. -The source code for geosever is very accessible -Works very well with postGIS and handle Raster data with ease, I've found geosever capable of handling even our most storage hungry datasets **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** -Installation / tweaking an install was perhaps not the easiest but nothing to fear. S -Can have issues when reprojecting into some co-ordinate reference systems. -Personally struggled to get geosever accessible over https -An obvious downside of geosever being free is the lack of support you would receive from the paid solutions ESRI provides. However there is a wealth of information, tutorials and help to be found for geosever. **Recommendations to others considering GeoServer:** There is a wealth of knowledge available our there, when I first started using geosever in another role I worked through the tutorials on their site and played around with uploading data from different streams. Don't be afraid to ask questions on GIS stack exchange if you don't know something. **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Has allowed the GIS team to take full control of spatial data. The team can administer all spatial data before limiting what end users can see. By creating WMS/WFS of raster and vector data for the ecologists within the organization the relevant information is provided to them without being scared by using spatial data on their own computers. This was previously done using QGIS on desktop with a direct connection to PostGIS which I quickly changed. ### 3. Opensource Mapserver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ratheesh V. | Sr. GIS Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** create custom Map using Spatial Data & Data Export to different Spatial format Option, Custopn Map Styling CSS & SLD **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** while am Migrating the created custom Map in one Geoserver to another most of the time it's crashing. **Recommendations to others considering GeoServer:** if you looking for an Opensource Mapserver for 1) Custom Map & Layer Creation with you on Custom Style Using CSS & SLD. 2) Mainly Standalone Geoweb cache will help to improve the map perfomance. 3) CQL filters for data 4) **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Last 6 Yer am working in Geoserver for Smart City Projects & CAD Emergency Dial 100 Projects for Street Basemap & 3D Layers & custom Layers, its help a lot to Easy the Geospatial visualization of spatial data. ### 4. Modern GIS and Mapping delivered by a monumental community effort **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** Scalability and Affordability. While the technology itself is great and on par with Enterprise Mapping Servers, the most impressive achievement which the others cannot achieve are the scalability and affordability factors that an open source solution such as Geoserver can deliver. **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** The UI. While any UI is good for shell savvy users, it will still be good to have a more user friendly and modern looking UI. This will attract more high level developers and enterprise system architects and will convince them that this is a strong software in terms of capabilities. Also, the online resources and documentation for this software, its plugins and extensions, and the commonly used software pairings could be a bit more easily accessible in structured unified space. For now, setting things up and using the different capabilities sometimes requires visits to many sites and locations to achieve this goal **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Geoserver is capable of delivering me a strong technology for WMS and general GIS management through web application development. ### 5. Best opensource tool to host your maps **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashutosh A. | Lead Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** GeoServer provides a wide range of integration with database, file system etc. You can upload shapefile or connect with any spatial database and you should be good to go. It provides faster way of map integration with your existing product. **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** Caching is the essential part of any web based technology and GeoServer have in conventional manner. May be team can provide some more suggestions friendly and automated way of providing same to user. Now a days developers are your business and they look towards fascination and ease of doing. One most important part of error dashboard. It is behind with today's tool like ELK etc. **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Obviously hosting maps for free. ### 6. Unavoidable part of any GIS application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stefan S. | Entrepreneur, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** Free and open source tool that implements OGC standards and offers numerous functionalities as well as expensive commercial software. **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** Be prepared to face bugs and dive into the code to fix them. **Recommendations to others considering GeoServer:** Sometimes to complete your aim you need to modify and develope some functionalities. That is the price of using free software. **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** WMS and WMTS are commonly used services in GIS. Simple way to visualize any spatial data is to show it on map. ### 7. I Highly recommend GeoServer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Environmental Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** It is the best open source map server software currently available, easy to learn and achieve fast results. Community plugins add a lot of functionality, on top of a robust main software. **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** The only disadvantage I suffered from is the styling options which are only code based and not friendly for non-coders. The css styling plugin does make the style process somewhat easier. **Recommendations to others considering GeoServer:** As stated above, this is the best open source software for serving either vector or raster data. It is very easy to set up on windows and linux and you can get to serving your data within minutes of installing it. **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Serving GeoSpatial data ### 8. User friendly from other servers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sharjeel M. | Remote sensing & GIS -Data Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** Since it is an open source and it will help for students and researcher to update their skills in Geospatial technology. To connect different databases to retrieve information that can be displayed in a more friendly way inside a map was never easy. **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** I didn't find any technical glitches, may be its a open source there may be some security issues. **Recommendations to others considering GeoServer:** I recommend for students and researcher to use and explore the concepts of Geoservers instead of ARCGIS server etc.. **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was trying to share data for data driven decisions ### 9. geoserver is the best open source web gis server **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Md. Al-Imran D. | Design Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** It is simple, OGC standard. It supports directly import of esri shape file. Cross platform support. **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** Adding custom style to any map is difficult. This application is only based on JAVA. **Recommendations to others considering GeoServer:** It has everything that you need in GIS based organization. **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** My MSc Thesis is based on wed gis. There I want to build a SDI based on geoserver. Because it is easy, cost savings. ### 10. Geoserver is a very professional server where we can easily make queries of lat long data. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nazim Uddin A. | GIS Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** It is user friendly. Geoserver is a good summary rather than raw coding. **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** Very few people are award about Geoserver. If it is possible to open a branch office at Bangladesh. **Recommendations to others considering GeoServer:** Every GIS expert should use Geoserver rather than raw coding. **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I completed some land use data with Geoserver. At now I am working to build an app for COVID-19 where I will use Geoserver for locate the victims location. ### 11. Experience Based Opinion **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Imran K. | Mapping & Charting Specialist (QC), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** Connecting database and reflection information is quite smooth and easy. **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** Styling option are more complex, likely to deal with sld etc. **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** we were implementing geoserver in a project; the best thing is as an open source no cost at all. It's fantastic in that way actually a company can save thousands of dollar. ### 12. Farrukh Experience about Geoserver **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Farrukh B. | Geographic Information Systems Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** its simple and easy. The Gui is simple not too much complex. And its open source. **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** Style editing techniques. When xml does not match with the layer, it is id difficult to understand where the problem arises. **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** i made different offline maps for different companies. For example vehicle tracking company , Water related projects ### 13. Bushfire recovery **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter S. | Cartographer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** Was very helpful for bushfire recovery maps offline to be joined online. **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** Sometimes it is tricky to work out how to edit and whether what you havr mapped is draft or submitted. **Recommendations to others considering GeoServer:** Not intuitive. Get a friend to help. **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working in a silo but also collaborating. ### 14. GIS Techno Functional Consultant **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** GeoServer is free software significantly lowers the financial barrier. It has "hidden treasures" it can produce map outputs according to Web Map Service specification. GeoServer has a large & vibrant community consisting of users & developers from all over the world. **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** connecting PostgreSQL/PostGIS via JNDI is slower than connecting PostgreSQL/PostGIS without JNDI. **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running Web Map Service with GeoServer on ESRI Shapefile or PostgreSQL/PostGIS are comparable ### 15. REcommended **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohsin S. | Geo Spatial Expert, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** Data interpretability in KMLs from shapefiles **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** Processing speed in way long time for display **Recommendations to others considering GeoServer:** Coding with the review **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Light files should be used to display with the corresponding symbology ### 16. Totally cool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manjula B. | GIS ENGINEER, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** It is an open geo server for sharing geospatial data **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** Performance problems, visualisation analysis **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can share all my geospatial data to the world without money ### 17. Developed 1 project using GeoServer to display Stories **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** Easy to use for new devs, easily customizable and extendable. Quick startup without reading lots of documentations. **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** It should support more languages which are commonly using **Recommendations to others considering GeoServer:** It's good for to start without reading much. And it supports almost in all areas of business **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have displayed our custom data to show different stories using PINs and lines. ### 18. Amazing GIS support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmed Hassan A. | Survey Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** Easy use to find any solution for project **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** Some time website hang and need to repoot **Recommendations to others considering GeoServer:** Perfect **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking System solutions ### 19. I use GeoServer daily for the OpenSource projects at work **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** An open source tool enabling to package your spatial data in web services **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** Quite unstable in conjunction with Tomcat. Difficult to optimise. **Recommendations to others considering GeoServer:** It's free, it's easy, does what it needs to do. **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use GeoServer to collect soil and underground data for the regional governement to then serve it to a geoportal. ### 20. Domains, architecture, and design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** The best programmers can take a complex problem, break it down into smaller pieces, solve each of those pieces, and then put everything back together to solve the initial problem. **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** Keep going, that’s the main progression rule. **Recommendations to others considering GeoServer:** keep it up **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Smart Solution for Smart Village ### 21. Evaluation **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** I like the cloud based approach which allow you to use the data everywhere **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** The server sometimes stuck and it doesn’t have any apps you have to login every time **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving the data and the issue of space in the computer device ### 22. Amazing experience with this product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Handerson C. | fullstack software developer with Python and angular in Google cloud platform, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2019 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** Sometime services like google maps are not enough when you need to work with geospatial data and display information in avery custom way. Connecting to different databases to retrieve information that can be displayed in a more friendly way inside a map was never easy. But Geoserver changed this allowing interaction beetwen maps and databases just by settings and also allowing embed and consume those maps from any kind of application using SDK's as OpenLayer for web applications. I loved the rich documentation and the way geoserver works with different databases. **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** As a software developers is a little bit hard setup the sever since you should know something about apache tomcat. I have heard there is a cloud based version of Geoserver but you have to pay. I thing it could be a good option open a free tier where you could test and create proof of concepts. **Recommendations to others considering GeoServer:** I think a good suggestion would be focus your product as a cloud based strategy. And sell the service instead of the product. Having different tiers including free tier to allow people to test the service. **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I needed to share information to differet people about different investments around the country. That information was displayed by regions with different criterias. This allowed leaders to make data driven decisions. ### 23. Best open source server for GeoSpatial data. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2020 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** It's very stable inspire of being an open source. I like WMTS **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** Limited support and point dataset rendering could be improved! **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it for a survey app. ### 24. Geoserver is different from ArcGIS server. It is an open source. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul K. | GIS Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2019 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** Open source and allow me to develop and customize the things as per my requirements. **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** Security and tech support are two things missing. ArcGIS server is providing all of these at genuine cost. **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trying to build an web based mapping application where user can upload imagery and they can perform GIS analysis. Every er have their own user I'd and password . The connection should be secured. ### 25. Awesome **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2019 **What do you like best about GeoServer?** WMS PUBLISHING in Geoserver for different level of forms creation. **What do you dislike about GeoServer?** I can't find the the errors or error sources. **What problems is GeoServer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sharing data in another form. ## GeoServer Discussions - [How does GeoServer work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-geoserver-work) - [What is GeoServer used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-geoserver-used-for) - [What grantees the security and privacy of my data??](https://www.g2.com/discussions/32837-what-grantees-the-security-and-privacy-of-my-data) - 1 upvote - [If I'am looking for a cloud based implementation what cloud do you sugest? Do you have a kind of parnertship with some of the common clouds like Amazon or Google?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/if-i-am-looking-for-a-cloud-based-implementation-what-cloud-do-you-sugest-do-you-have-a-kind-of-parnertship-with-some-of-the-common-clouds-like-amazon-or-google) - 1 upvote - [It should use door to door, man to man, people to people.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/33023-it-should-use-door-to-door-man-to-man-people-to-people) - [View GeoServer pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/geoserver/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+14%3A26%3A13+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=42f16104-78f1-4a85-81b8-666e67b8f64e&secure%5Btoken%5D=3181f3baaff14e0bd8bbef786c1c7c9bfefd16ee54813026749b125fad41c6de&format=llm_user) ## GeoServer Features **Data Management** - Data Capture - Data Storage - Data Manipulation - Data Visualization **Map Creation** - Geocoding - Buffer Zone Query - Overlaying - Publishing **Analysis** - Spatial Analysis - Reporting - Real-Time Streaming ## Top GeoServer Alternatives - [QGIS](https://www.g2.com/products/qgis/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (145 reviews) - [ArcGIS Enterprise](https://www.g2.com/products/arcgis-enterprise/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (62 reviews) - [Mapbox](https://www.g2.com/products/mapbox/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (41 reviews)