GC2 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

GC2 is an open source platform for managing geospatial data, publishing map services and building geospatial applications. It ties PostGIS, MapServer, QGIS Server, MapCache and GDAL together behind a single web administration application, so an organisation can run a complete spatial data infrastructure without hand editing configuration files.

You upload spatial data in the formats you already have, such as ESRI Shapefile, MapInfo, GeoJSON, GML, KML, File Geodatabase and GeoTIFF, along with plain CSV and other tabular files, and GC2 imports them into PostGIS for you. Each layer can then be published as an OGC WMS or WFS service, cached as map tiles, styled and classified from the browser, and edited directly in the administration interface or over WFS T from a desktop GIS. Access is controlled layer by layer, and an editing workflow can route changes through an author, reviewer and publisher chain.

Alongside the map services GC2 exposes the database itself as a web service: you send SQL and receive GeoJSON, CSV or Excel, which makes it straightforward to feed dashboards, reports and custom front ends from the same authoritative spatial database. GC2 is an OSGeo Community Project.

Common uses

• Spatial data infrastructure
• OGC map service publishing
• PostGIS data management

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.