geoserver vs QGIS

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geoserver		QGIS
	Project
2	Mentions	81
3,572	Stars	9,585
1.8%	Growth	2.3%
9.6	Activity	10.0
about 18 hours ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
Java	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

geoserver

Posts with mentions or reviews of geoserver. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.

Which strongly typed/backend programming languages have you encountered/used in this field?
3 projects | /r/gis | 8 Jan 2023

Geoserver is the main opensource web GIS server. It's written in Java.
Is GeoSever dying?
4 projects | /r/gis | 28 Jan 2022

QGIS

Posts with mentions or reviews of QGIS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-26.

Spatial Search of Amazon S3 Express One Zone Data with Amazon Athena and Visualized It in QGIS
1 project | dev.to | 18 Dec 2023

Prepare GIS data for use with Amazon Athena. This time, we created four types of sample data in QGIS in advance.
Best way to mimic ESRI / ArcGIS Web App?
1 project | /r/web_design | 11 Dec 2023

I am using Qgis to try to edit the map database and add polygon territories for any future changes to the GeoJSON that I created/edited.
QGIS 3.32 warns you to switch to X11 if started in a Wayland session
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2023
Help with Generate XYZ tiles (Directory) tool ignoring empty space cells.
1 project | /r/QGIS | 20 Jun 2023

Judging by this open issue in the QGIS repo it doesn't seem to be possible to skip fully transparent tiles.
Why does QGIS take so long to copy and paste 80000 geometries?
1 project | /r/gis | 2 Jun 2023

In the most generic, high level way: grab the source code, start up a debugging session with a profiler, and see what/where the bottleneck is. Bonus points for documenting the issue and submitting a bug report. Extra double bonus points for opening a pull request to
12 Open Source GIS Software
5 projects | /r/u_Long-Experience8779 | 26 May 2023

Access: QGIS
Just finished my two month interrail trip and wanted to show my map! Red are trains, blue are ferries and green are busses. Total distance was 17.000 km, of which 9.500 were done with a train
1 project | /r/Interrail | 28 Apr 2023

Hi! I used QGIS to create the map and BRouter to create the lines as routes. Does help that GIS is one of the major parts of my profession so I'm fairly familiar with designing maps
Visualizing Cycling Trails on a single Map, is there an app?
1 project | /r/bicycletouring | 22 Apr 2023

qgis Desktop software.
Temporal controller BC dates?
1 project | /r/QGIS | 16 Apr 2023

Oh hm i may have misunderstood this answer: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/36683
Is there a way to reclassify a raster with Natural Breaks jenks?
1 project | /r/QGIS | 25 Mar 2023

Adding natural breaks to symbology for rasters is an open feature request (since 2020) https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/39746

What are some alternatives?

When comparing geoserver and QGIS you can also consider the following projects:

geoserver-cloud - Cloud Native GeoServer is GeoServer ready to use in the cloud through dockerized microservices.

Openstreetmap - The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap

osm - Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.

open-source-exandria - A repository for fans of Critical Role to contribute to the data behind the interactive fantasy map for the show or copy it and make your own maps!

School-Building-Map - There is difficulty in finding the way to classes at the beginning of a new term. With a program, develop a way to take an initial destination from the user and an end goal destination, and map out the shortest path between them, and display it.

profanity - Ncurses based XMPP client

GMapsFX - Java API for using Google Maps within a JavaFX application.

awesome-bigdata - A curated list of awesome big data frameworks, ressources and other awesomeness.

mbtileserver - Basic Go server for mbtiles

awesome-gis - 😎Awesome GIS is a collection of geospatial related sources, including cartographic tools, geoanalysis tools, developer tools, data, conference & communities, news, massive open online course, some amazing map sites, and more.

S2 geojson - Draw a polygon on the map or paste a geoJSON and explore how the s2.RegionCoverer covers it with S2 cells depending on the min and max levels

gdal - GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.