On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:21:52PM -0600, Lance Dyas wrote: > Does anyone know enough to compare FeatureServer and Geoserver?
FeatureServer is a Python-CGI, simple to set up, easy to have use OGR datasources, deployable on Apache. It's lightweight, simple, and designed for integration into OpenLayers via RESTful feature access. It is configured via a text file, and only serves features, but serves them in a number of vector formats. GeoServer is a mature, Java-based application, which is trivial to deploy on Apache Tomcat. It has a supremely high quality WFS transactional interface, and supports some different formats, but primarily only works via WFS and WFS-T. It is configured via a web interface primarily, has support for ESRI Arcsomething or other, and also can act as a WMS. FeatureServer is lightweight, RESTful, and designed with the web in mind. GeoServer is heavier, and designed with and around OGC standards; it is slightly less flexible/hackable, but much more mature. If you need to hack some feature editing together with OpenLayers, use FeatureServer. If you have to work with GIS-like data in a GIS-like environment, use GeoServer... but be aware that it will take some doing to get WFS-T-based feature editing into OL. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
