Data Services : GeoServer

Data server:

Developed by: community-driven, GeoServer info

Summary:

PacIOOS administers GeoServer to serve GIS layers for the insular Pacific.

Suggested use:

  • Download or access GIS data.

Pros:

  • GeoServer supports several output formats and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) data services.

Data offerings:

  • GIS layers for the insular Pacific.
  • While our other data servers focus primarily on providing real-time observations and forecasts, GeoServer provides static maps of various boundaries, locations, imagery, and other geospatial features. In terms of the data sets provided, there is little-to-no overlap between GeoServer and our other data servers.

Screenshots:

Data types:

  • grids
  • points
  • lines
  • polygons

Services:

Output formats:

  • Shapefile
  • GeoTIFF
  • PNG, JPEG, GIF
  • KML
  • GML
  • ASCII text: comma-separated values (CSV)
  • PDF
  • GeoJSON
  • GeoRSS
  • AtomPub
  • SVG
  • OpenLayers

Metadata:

  • various formats and completeness, depending on original data providers.

Viewers:

  • OpenLayers
Data Interoperability

Plug-and-play with PacIOOS data in your chosen software or programming language using standardized web services protocols like OPeNDAP, Web Map Service (WMS), NetCDF Subset Service (NCSS), and other open access methods. Please contact us at info@pacioos.org if you have any questions!