GeoNode: an open source framework to build spatial data infrastructures
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Spatial and Geographic Information Systems, Software Engineering
- Keywords
- catalogue, data discovery, geoportal, interoperability, metadata, OGC standards, spatial data infrastructures, geonode
- Copyright
- © 2019 Corti et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2019. GeoNode: an open source framework to build spatial data infrastructures. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27534v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27534v1
Abstract
GeoNode is an open source framework designed to build geospatial content management systems (GeoCMS) and spatial data infrastructure (SDI) nodes. Its development was initiated by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) in 2009 and adopted by a large number of organizations in the following years. Using an open source stack based on mature and robust frameworks and software like Django, OpenLayers, PostGIS, GeoServer and pycsw, an organization can build on top of GeoNode its SDI or geospatial open data portal. GeoNode provides a large number of user friendly capabilities, broad interoperability using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards, and a powerful authentication/authorization mechanism. Supported by a vast, diverse and global open source community, GeoNode is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).
Author Comment
This software article is about GeoNode, an open source framework to implement GeoCMSs and SDIs. Authors are all GeoNode long time core committers and users.