GeoNode: an open source framework to build spatial data infrastructures

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1 Open Source Geospatial Foundation, Beaverton, Oregon, United States
2 Geobeyond SRL, Rome, Italy
3 GeoSolutions SAS, Massarosa LU, Italy
4 World Bank, Washington DC, United States
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.27534v1
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.
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Cite this article
Corti P, Bartoli F, Fabiani A, Giovando C, Kralidis AT, Tzotsos A. 2019. GeoNode: an open source framework to build spatial data infrastructures. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27534v1

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.