pg_featureserv
A lightweight RESTful geospatial feature server for PostGIS, written in Go. It supports the OGC API - Features REST API standard.
See also our companion project pg_tileserv.
Main features
- Implements the OGC API - Features standard.
- Standard query parameters:
limit,bbox,bbox-crs, property filtering,sortby,crs - Query parameters
filterandfilter-crsallow CQL filtering, with spatial support - Extended query parameters:
offset,properties,transform,precision,groupby,max-allowable-offset
- Standard query parameters:
- Data responses are formatted in JSON and GeoJSON
- Provides a simple HTML user interface, with web maps to view spatial data
- Uses the power of PostgreSQL to reduce the amount of code
and to make data definition easy and familiar.
- Feature collections are defined by database objects (tables and views)
- Filters are executed in the database, and use indexes where defined
- Uses PostGIS to provide geospatial functionality:
- Spatial filtering
- Transforming geometry data into the output coordinate system
- Providing geometry simplification capability
- Marshalling feature data into GeoJSON
- Full-featured HTTP support
- CORS support with configurable Allowed Origins
- GZIP response encoding
- HTTP and HTTPS support
For a full list of software capabilities is available here.
Documentation
The full User Guide contains the following chapters: