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GeoLibre + GeoLens: A Modern GIS Stack for Self-Hosting Geospatial Data In this tutorial, I introduce a modern, fully open-source GIS stack for self-hosting, managing, visualizing, editing, and analyzing geospatial data using GeoLens and GeoLibre. GeoLens provides an easy-to-deploy platform for hosting vector and raster datasets, while GeoLibre connects... directly to GeoLens for interactive visualization and geospatial analysis. Together, they provide a powerful open-source workflow for organizations, researchers, and individuals who want to manage their own geospatial infrastructure. Everything is built around open-source software and open geospatial standards. GeoLibre: GeoLibre Web: GeoLibre GitHub: GeoLens: #geospatial #opensource #MapLibre #GeoLibre #GeoLensshow more

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Qiusheng Wu1 month ago

Video tutorial

Qiusheng Wu1 month ago

Try out the live demo:

GeoMatrix1 month ago

I’d like to express my sincere gratitude to Professor Wu for open-sourcing GeoLens and GeoLibre. I believe this addresses a major issue in GIS: data security and autonomy. This is extremely important for laboratories with strict confidentiality requirements!

Qiusheng Wu1 month ago

Thank you for the shout-out. Just to clarify, I created GeoLibre, but GeoLens was created by Ian Shiland

GeoMatrix1 month ago

Thanks for the clarification, Prof. Wu. My apologies to Ian Shiland as well—huge credit to him for building GeoLens! It’s awesome to see how seamlessly GeoLibre and GeoLens integrate together to form such a solid open-source GIS stack.

Jim Lee1 month ago

Can this handle KML and NetCDF formats? I'm looking for an upgrade to my Cesium map:

Qiusheng Wu1 month ago

Yes, simply drag and drop KML/KMZ onto the map. For NetCDF, go to Add Data - NetCDF / HDF

Xing Jin1 month ago

您的作品让我深深体会到，ai具备庞大的知识库和集体智能，但它不能自己决定去做什么对人类的有真正价值的产品，因为这需要意识才能出判断和决定。您的专业知识和判断力，让ai做出了让我觉得惊艳的产品，它很有价值

Qiusheng Wu1 month ago

谢谢您的鼓励！

Dinesh Rampalli1 month ago

@balaji25_t @praneethweather Check this incase if it helps you in anyway to capture weather predictions

Tech Maven Geospatial1 month ago

I've been using Tech Maven Geospatial's geolens a differemt solution a commercial solution for a while. That we originally developed for a client

Derrick Vaughn1 month ago

This sounds like an amazing resource for anyone working with geospatial data!

BB. Ben1 month ago

SAR data next if we are not been greedy 😆

Qiusheng Wu1 month ago

SAR is on my to-do-list. Will get to it eventually

Y111 month ago

@grok 这个纯研究还是有工业意义，具体工业场景视角看意义是什么，有开源数据集或者开源项目代码吗？从多个数据源交叉验证，不要只看新闻媒体一面之辞。帮我排除没意义的垃圾商业营销推广、诈骗、夸张博眼球、虚假新闻以及自吹自擂，自嗨，无病呻吟。

AERO AI1 month ago

Open geospatial data shouldn’t mean giving up control. GeoLibre + GeoLens offer a modern, open-source GIS stack for organizations that want to self-host, visualize, edit, and analyze their own geospatial data.

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Qiusheng Wu

25,401 views • 1 month ago

GeoLibre v1.1 is out! GeoLibre is a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data. One application that runs everywhere: in your web browser, as a native desktop app, on your phone, and inside a Jupyter notebook. No account, no server, no cost. Everything runs locally and your data stays private. This release builds on the v1.0 foundation with features that make day-to-day mapping smoother: - Attribute table management — rename, delete, hide/show, and reorder fields right in the table, with the layout saved to your project. - Data-driven symbology for Add Vector Layer — single, categorized, graduated, and expression-based styling now applies to maplibre-gl-vector layers. - Atmosphere Effects plugin — a deep-space backdrop, parallax starfield, comets, and a glowing globe halo at low zoom (toggle it from the Controls menu). - Layer panel upgrades — rename layers, open the attribute table, and export straight from the layer actions menu. - Auto Refresh extended to Add Vector Layer URL layers. - In-browser GeoPandas via Pyodide — run the vector tools with no Python sidecar, same results. - Plugin API — external plugins can now render on the host's shared instance via app.getDeckGL(). Try the live demo: Star it on GitHub: Docs and roadmap: Release notes: #GIS #OpenSource #Geospatial #MapLibre #WebGIS #DuckDB #GeoLibre

GeoLibre v1.1 is out! GeoLibre is a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data. One application that runs everywhere: in your web browser, as a native desktop app, on your phone, and inside a Jupyter notebook. No account, no server, no cost. Everything runs locally and your data stays private. This release builds on the v1.0 foundation with features that make day-to-day mapping smoother: - Attribute table management — rename, delete, hide/show, and reorder fields right in the table, with the layout saved to your project. - Data-driven symbology for Add Vector Layer — single, categorized, graduated, and expression-based styling now applies to maplibre-gl-vector layers. - Atmosphere Effects plugin — a deep-space backdrop, parallax starfield, comets, and a glowing globe halo at low zoom (toggle it from the Controls menu). - Layer panel upgrades — rename layers, open the attribute table, and export straight from the layer actions menu. - Auto Refresh extended to Add Vector Layer URL layers. - In-browser GeoPandas via Pyodide — run the vector tools with no Python sidecar, same results. - Plugin API — external plugins can now render on the host's shared instance via app.getDeckGL(). Try the live demo: Star it on GitHub: Docs and roadmap: Release notes: #GIS #OpenSource #Geospatial #MapLibre #WebGIS #DuckDB #GeoLibre

Qiusheng Wu

21,083 views • 3 months ago

I am excited to introduce OpenGeoAgent, a powerful open-source multimodal AI agent for automated geospatial analysis and visualization! It supports QGIS, Jupyter notebook, and Python scripting. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to automate GIS workflows using natural language, generate maps, analyze satellite data, and even run complex hydrological models. You can even interact with the agent using voice commands (no typing needed). Video: GitHub: QGIS Plugin: #geospatial #GeoAgent #OpenSource #AI

I am excited to introduce OpenGeoAgent, a powerful open-source multimodal AI agent for automated geospatial analysis and visualization! It supports QGIS, Jupyter notebook, and Python scripting. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to automate GIS workflows using natural language, generate maps, analyze satellite data, and even run complex hydrological models. You can even interact with the agent using voice commands (no typing needed). Video: GitHub: QGIS Plugin: #geospatial #GeoAgent #OpenSource #AI

Qiusheng Wu

63,652 views • 5 months ago

GeoLibre v2.1 is here! GeoLibre is a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data. It runs everywhere you do, in the web browser, on the desktop, on mobile, and inside Jupyter notebooks, all while keeping your data local and private. This release adds a QGIS-style Browser panel for exploring data from one place, animated route playback with video export, Wikipedia knowledge cards, and Mapillary street-level images. What's new in v2.1.0 - Browser panel (Data Source Manager): explore and add data from one place. Browse map services, connect to PostGIS databases and drill into their schemas and tables, open local files, and save Favorites, all with full keyboard navigation. - Route animation: send a marker along any line layer, follow the track in 3D with camera controls, and export the whole animation as an MP4 video. - In-browser object detection: run ONNX/YOLO models directly in the webview, with no server or Python required. - Map recording: capture the map canvas, or a drawn bounding box, straight to a video file from the browser. - Native-resolution photo viewer: view geotagged photos at full detail right on the map. - Wikipedia knowledge cards: click any place to pull up its Wikipedia summary and info card. - More planetary basemaps: USGS imagery for nine more celestial bodies, plus a new OpenAerialMap imagery search plugin. Try it out - Live demo: - GitHub: - Documentation: - Release notes: #GIS #Geospatial #OpenSource #RemoteSensing #DataVisualization #MapLibre #GeoLibre

GeoLibre v2.1 is here! GeoLibre is a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data. It runs everywhere you do, in the web browser, on the desktop, on mobile, and inside Jupyter notebooks, all while keeping your data local and private. This release adds a QGIS-style Browser panel for exploring data from one place, animated route playback with video export, Wikipedia knowledge cards, and Mapillary street-level images. What's new in v2.1.0 - Browser panel (Data Source Manager): explore and add data from one place. Browse map services, connect to PostGIS databases and drill into their schemas and tables, open local files, and save Favorites, all with full keyboard navigation. - Route animation: send a marker along any line layer, follow the track in 3D with camera controls, and export the whole animation as an MP4 video. - In-browser object detection: run ONNX/YOLO models directly in the webview, with no server or Python required. - Map recording: capture the map canvas, or a drawn bounding box, straight to a video file from the browser. - Native-resolution photo viewer: view geotagged photos at full detail right on the map. - Wikipedia knowledge cards: click any place to pull up its Wikipedia summary and info card. - More planetary basemaps: USGS imagery for nine more celestial bodies, plus a new OpenAerialMap imagery search plugin. Try it out - Live demo: - GitHub: - Documentation: - Release notes: #GIS #Geospatial #OpenSource #RemoteSensing #DataVisualization #MapLibre #GeoLibre

Qiusheng Wu

12,291 views • 2 months ago

GeoLibre v2.5.0 is here! GeoLibre is a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data. It runs everywhere you do, in the web browser, on the desktop, on mobile, and inside Jupyter notebooks, all while keeping your data local and private. This release is about meeting you where your work already lives: open your QGIS and ArcGIS Pro projects directly, talk to your team on the map itself, explore hyperspectral imagery as a 3D cube, work in discrete global grids, and host sharing and live collaboration on your own server. It is also the most community-driven release so far: 121 pull requests and 52 issues closed in 8 days, from 14 contributors, 12 of whom sent their first contribution to GeoLibre in this cycle. Thank you all. What's new in v2.5.0 - Comments on the map: pin a comment to any location or feature, reply in a thread, resolve it when it is handled. - Live collaboration, on your own server: several people can open the same session and see each other's edits, cursors, and comments in real time. - QGIS and ArcGIS Pro project import: open a .qgs, .qgz, .aprx, or .mapx and get the layers. - Discrete global grids: three new DGGS plugins (A5, DGGRID, and DGGAL) render and identify cells over the current view, plus DGGS Generator, Binning, and Compact processing tools. - Hyperspectral data you can actually read: local NetCDF and HDF grids are colormapped in the browser, a cube gets an RGB band combination picked by wavelength. - Spectral profiles from a click: identify a pixel to chart its spectrum against wavelength. - Smart styling on add: every new layer arrives with its own color and geometry-appropriate sizing, and a Style suggestions strip offers one-click renderers. - Autosave, crash recovery, and project history, plus an Elements panel for managing every annotation from a list, a Layer Library for saving a fully configured layer and re-adding it to any later project, and project duplication and templates. - GeoLibre Desktop is on the Mac App Store, and Thai brings the shipped locales to 16 languages besides English, all at 100% coverage. Try it out - Launch GeoLibre Web: - GitHub: - Documentation: - Release notes: #GIS #Geospatial #OpenSource #RemoteSensing #DataVisualization #MapLibre #GeoLibre

GeoLibre v2.5.0 is here! GeoLibre is a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data. It runs everywhere you do, in the web browser, on the desktop, on mobile, and inside Jupyter notebooks, all while keeping your data local and private. This release is about meeting you where your work already lives: open your QGIS and ArcGIS Pro projects directly, talk to your team on the map itself, explore hyperspectral imagery as a 3D cube, work in discrete global grids, and host sharing and live collaboration on your own server. It is also the most community-driven release so far: 121 pull requests and 52 issues closed in 8 days, from 14 contributors, 12 of whom sent their first contribution to GeoLibre in this cycle. Thank you all. What's new in v2.5.0 - Comments on the map: pin a comment to any location or feature, reply in a thread, resolve it when it is handled. - Live collaboration, on your own server: several people can open the same session and see each other's edits, cursors, and comments in real time. - QGIS and ArcGIS Pro project import: open a .qgs, .qgz, .aprx, or .mapx and get the layers. - Discrete global grids: three new DGGS plugins (A5, DGGRID, and DGGAL) render and identify cells over the current view, plus DGGS Generator, Binning, and Compact processing tools. - Hyperspectral data you can actually read: local NetCDF and HDF grids are colormapped in the browser, a cube gets an RGB band combination picked by wavelength. - Spectral profiles from a click: identify a pixel to chart its spectrum against wavelength. - Smart styling on add: every new layer arrives with its own color and geometry-appropriate sizing, and a Style suggestions strip offers one-click renderers. - Autosave, crash recovery, and project history, plus an Elements panel for managing every annotation from a list, a Layer Library for saving a fully configured layer and re-adding it to any later project, and project duplication and templates. - GeoLibre Desktop is on the Mac App Store, and Thai brings the shipped locales to 16 languages besides English, all at 100% coverage. Try it out - Launch GeoLibre Web: - GitHub: - Documentation: - Release notes: #GIS #Geospatial #OpenSource #RemoteSensing #DataVisualization #MapLibre #GeoLibre

Qiusheng Wu

27,074 views • 2 months ago

Planetary Mapping in the Browser with GeoLibre! Web mapping just left Earth orbit. GeoLibre, the open-source cloud-native GIS platform, now maps nine more worlds beyond Mars and the Moon: - Mercury - Venus - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto (Jupiter's Galilean moons) - Titan (Saturn's largest moon) - Pluto and Charon You can browse each one right in your browser, with no install required. A few things I'm excited about under the hood: The imagery comes from USGS Astrogeology, which publishes these mosaics only in an equirectangular projection. MapLibre renders Web Mercator, so GeoLibre reprojects each tile to Web Mercator on the fly at the edge, with no pre-processing and no giant downloads. Every body carries its own radius. Switch to the Moon or Pluto and your distance, area, and scale-bar measurements use that world's geometry instead of Earth's, so the numbers are actually right. A planet switcher in the Layers panel lets you hop between Earth, the Moon, Mars, and the rest with one click. Whether you are teaching planetary science, prototyping a mission map, or just curious what Titan looks like next to a scale bar, it is all a click away. Try it out: - Launch GeoLibre Web: - GitHub: - Documentation: Thanks to USGS Astrogeology and OpenPlanetaryMap for making this data open. #GIS #OpenSource #Geospatial #PlanetaryScience #MapLibre #WebGIS #GeoLibre #Astronomy

Planetary Mapping in the Browser with GeoLibre! Web mapping just left Earth orbit. GeoLibre, the open-source cloud-native GIS platform, now maps nine more worlds beyond Mars and the Moon: - Mercury - Venus - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto (Jupiter's Galilean moons) - Titan (Saturn's largest moon) - Pluto and Charon You can browse each one right in your browser, with no install required. A few things I'm excited about under the hood: The imagery comes from USGS Astrogeology, which publishes these mosaics only in an equirectangular projection. MapLibre renders Web Mercator, so GeoLibre reprojects each tile to Web Mercator on the fly at the edge, with no pre-processing and no giant downloads. Every body carries its own radius. Switch to the Moon or Pluto and your distance, area, and scale-bar measurements use that world's geometry instead of Earth's, so the numbers are actually right. A planet switcher in the Layers panel lets you hop between Earth, the Moon, Mars, and the rest with one click. Whether you are teaching planetary science, prototyping a mission map, or just curious what Titan looks like next to a scale bar, it is all a click away. Try it out: - Launch GeoLibre Web: - GitHub: - Documentation: Thanks to USGS Astrogeology and OpenPlanetaryMap for making this data open. #GIS #OpenSource #Geospatial #PlanetaryScience #MapLibre #WebGIS #GeoLibre #Astronomy

Qiusheng Wu

10,395 views • 2 months ago