GeoGirafe 1.0

#GeoGirafe 1.0, the first Long-Term Release of this #opensource #WebGIS ecosystem, is now available. GeoGirafe positions itself as geospatial web component offering a comprehensive #webmap viewer with #OGC services, authentication, search, measurement, drawing, 3D, and more capabilities.
Author

Ralph Straumann

Published

January 15, 2026

Today, the first stable version (Long-Term Release, LTR) of GeoGirafe was published. From the announcement:

After an active development phase and a promising Release Candidate, we are pleased to announce the release of GeoGirafe 1.0. With this first LTR release, GeoGirafe reaches an important milestone and establishes itself as a structuring open-source project within the geospatial ecosystem.

GeoGirafe is a self-described “ecosystem of WebGIS components” that can be combined with different backend infrastructure. It offers, at its core, a web map viewer comprising OGC1-services display, authentication, search, filtering, measurement, drawing, and sharing tools as well as a 3D mode. If you want to learn more, demo instances are available.

Footnotes

  1. Open Geospatial Consortium↩︎