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PostGIS at 20, the Beginning

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Re: PostGIS at 20, the Beginning

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PostGIS is popular and fine, but is there a front end framework available designed to work with it, so that one can fully avoid the proprietary ESRI stack?

Leafletjs was the only oss frontend option back in 2015-2016 when we ditched Esri and created our own in-house app, based on Electron. Apart from Mapbox, which was freemium.

Re: PostGIS at 20, the Beginning

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post #31

PostGIS is popular and fine, but is there a front end framework available designed to work with it, so that one can fully avoid the proprietary ESRI stack?

Leafletjs was the only oss frontend option back in 2015-2016 when we ditched Esri and created our own in-house app, based on Electron. Apart from Mapbox, which was freemium.

Did you consider OpenLayers?

It's been around for a long time and is really powerful when compared to other open source web-based mapping/GIS options - unfortunately I never really need the advanced features in the projects I tend to work on.

https://openlayers.org/

Edit, my favourite from their list of examples: https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/sea-level.html

Re: PostGIS at 20, the Beginning

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Leafletjs was the only oss frontend option back in 2015-2016 when we ditched Esri and created our own in-house app, based on Electron. Apart from Mapbox, which was freemium.

Did you consider OpenLayers? It's been around for a long time and is really powerful when compared to other open source web-based mapping/GIS options - unfortunately I never really need the advanced features in the projects I tend to work on. https://openlayers.org/ Edit, my favourite from their list of examples: https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/sea-level.html

I think OpenLayers had come up as an option back then, but Leaflet was just easy to adopt, I guess.
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