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by dvisca 821 days ago
Another common alternative to GeoServer and MapServer is QGIS Server. Based on THE Open Source Desktop GIS - QGIS Server publishes a QGIS project file as a WMS/WFS/WMT-S/OGC API service. From a visualization point of view, you have the advantage that the styling you have done in QGIS is reproduced 1:1, since QGIS Server uses the same rendering engine. Serializing the mapfiles from pydantic models as described by the author seems pretty cool though. I've tried this for QGIS project files as well, which are basically just XML files... but it gets tedious after a while.