Geoserver vs geoapi

Were you ever curious about how companies like Uber, Just Eat, and Strava show you the location of your delivery, ride, or run in real-time? Well, in this tutorial we will go over the two main ways that map data can be displayed and interacted with on a web page.

We will cover the following:

• a discussion of the two main ways to display map data on a web page, and their pros and cons
• setting up a postgres/ postgis database
• inserting actual map data into the database
• spinning up a geoserver to serve the map data
• spinning up a geographical REST API to serve the map data
• displaying the map data on a web page using streamlit and folium

In the following video demo our resident Python Developer, James Twose, will show you how it is done!

We hope you enjoyed this tutorial and now have a better understanding of how to display map data on a web page.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to reach out to us on our social media channels or via email.

You can find the code for this tutorial here: https://github.com/jameshtwose/geoserver-vs-pygeoapi