GeoREST 1.0.2 has just had its first major release, as presented by “Between the Poles”. GeoREST is an independent Open Source project licensed under LGPL, and it is and implementation of a REST framework for searching your geospatial data, like ArcGIS Server REST. An overview of GeoREST was presented at FOSS4G 2009 in Sydney.

Most exiting GeoREST does allow full editing capability; which is not yet available in ArcGIS Rest API. A nice example of GeoREST and its editing capabilities is available here: http://www.sl-king.com/georestsamples/example1/rview.html#

It allows RESTful feature-based access to spatial data sources, including full editing capabilities, through a MapGuide server or directly via FDO, giving access to a large number of vector geospatial formats.

Examples of data sources:

  • SHP
  • SDF
  • SQLite (FDO)
  • PostGIS
  • Oracle Spatial
  • Microsoft SQL Server Spatial
  • MySQL
  • Any other FDO vector data source

Example output formats:

  • GeoJSON
  • XML
  • PNG (MapGuide layers only)
  • HTML (Template)
  • KML (Template)
  • GeoRSS (Template)
  • CSV (Template)
  • Any other templatable text-based format