Editing GeoServer (section)

== Features ==
GeoServer reads a variety of data formats,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://geoserver.org/release/stable/|title=GeoServer|website=geoserver.org|access-date=2018-08-02}}</ref> including:

* [[PostGIS]]
* [[Oracle Spatial]]
* [[ArcSDE]]
* [[IBM Db2]]
* [[MySQL]]
* [[MongoDB]]
* [[Apache Solr]]
* [[Shapefile]]s
* [[GeoTIFF]]
* [[GTOPO30]]
* [[ECW (file format)|ECW]], [[MrSID]]
* [[JPEG2000]]

Through standard protocols it produces [[Keyhole Markup Language|KML]], [[Geography Markup Language|GML]], Shapefile, [[GeoRSS]], [[Portable Document Format|PDF]], [[GeoJSON]], [[JPEG]], [[GIF]], [[Scalable Vector Graphics|SVG]], [[Portable Network Graphics|PNG]] and more. In addition, one can edit data via the [[Web Feature Service#Transactions|WFS transactional profile]] (WFS-T).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/services/wfs/reference.html|title=WFS reference — GeoServer 2.14.x User Manual|website=docs.geoserver.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-02}}</ref>  GeoServer includes an integrated [[OpenLayers]] client for previewing data layers.

GeoServer additionally supports efficient publishing of geospatial data to [[Google Earth]] through the use of network links, using KML.  Advanced features for Google Earth output include templates for customized pop-ups, time and height visualizations, and "super-overlays".

GeoServer relies on [[GeoTools]], a [[geographic information system|GIS]] library.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://geoserver.org/about/|title=About - GeoServer|website=geoserver.org|access-date=2018-08-02}}</ref>