pygeoapi VS maplibre-gl-leaflet

If you're just looking for a WFS (geojson/data) and not WMS/raster output, you might look at PyGeoAPI. (https://pygeoapi.io/) I haven't used it, but have looked at it a bit for a potential project to export geo data as an API.

Geoserver does fill a pretty big hole in the capabilities space -- it's pretty easy to get going with a bunch of layers and style them, but ultimately they're implementing a RDBMS in xml files, and it's a big, complicated, java system that's been one of the more troublesome portions of the stack (IME).

I would also like to share https://pygeoapi.io/ which relies on the new OGC API standard to share geospatial data.

python: https://pygeoapi.io - the whole project is ogcapi stuff

This may be a good start, without having to write much code. https://pygeoapi.io/

I believe pygeoapi https://pygeoapi.io/ is what you're looking for. It implements the OGC API suite of standards, and is in active development. I haven't used it yet, but hope to pretty soon within a Django project. If you do go with it I'd love to hear what you think.

https://pygeoapi.io/ link to the project. The devs are really active and helpful in Gitter of you ever have any issues

In order to publish the dataset using the OGC API Features standard, we need a software which implements the standard. In this tutorial we will use pygeoapi, which is a python server implementation, released under a FOSS (MIT) license. pygeoapi needs a backend to store the data. For that we will use the MongoDB document oriented database. In order to make deployment easier, the complete stack was virtualised into a set of docker containers, and orchestrated using docker-compose.

At my day job we’re heavily invested in Leaflet for historical reasons, but toward the end of last year added Maplibre as a layer on top of it via the excellent https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-leaflet. This has allowed us to begin transitioning gradually instead of being forced to jump all at once.

It’s hard to beat the simplicity of Leaflet, but neither it nor OpenLayers can handle Mapbox Vector Tiles in a performant enough manner, so Maplibre is the future for us.

On the Leaflet front, if you look at the plugins list, you'll see Leaflet.VectorGrid (made a long time ago by yours truly). And if you search for a bit, you'll find maplibre-gl-leaflet, which places a Maplibre instance inside a Leaflet map pane.

https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-leaflet exists!

It's not perfect, and you don't see the full benefit of a WebGL renderer, but if you want to keep using a Leaflet API, it's great.

Seems like MapTiler is maintaining an open source full stack vector alternative, and OpenLayers[0] looks good as well, so maybe it's time for legacy libraries to add vector support, or for users to switch libraries? There's even bindings from Maplibre GL to Leaflet [1].

I at least would find it interesting to see the two compared by someone other than me ;).

[0] https://openlayers.org/

[1] https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-leaflet