Welcome

Welcome to GeoCat Live Mapping, and thank you for being a GeoCat customer.

GeoServer is a class-leading application for the publishing of spatial information using international and industry standards. GeoServer provides direct access to feature and raster content, rich cartographic visualization, and geospatial processing. GeoServer integrates smoothly into your existing GIS infrastructure working with database, file, and cloud storage.

GeoCat is a proud open source company, and a core-contributor of GeoServer project. This GeoServer Enterprise release includes the latest GeoServer, GeoWebCache, GeoTools, JAT-EXT, and JTS Topology Suite technologies.

GeoCat Live Mapping 2025.0 Mapping update:

GeoCat Live Standard:

Additional security hardening measures have been enabled.

GeoCat Live Premium:

OGCAPI Services are now listed on the home page and available per workspace
Additional OGCAPI Services are now available

Reference:

Contact GeoCat BV for more information on this product and the advantages of commercial open source.

Note

This document includes creative commons attribution license content from the GeoServer User Manual , and GeoServer and GeoTools release announcements. Material has been adapted to reflect the GeoServer Enterprise product and visual appearance.

User experience

GeoCat Map Theme Preview

For 2025 GeoServer Enterprise is being renamed to GeoCat Map with a theme update to match the GeoCat website.

This theme is being tested presently and is available on request.

../_images/geocat-map-theme.png — GeoCat Map Theme (Preview)

GeoCat Map Live Theme

The GeoCat Live theme has been updated to reflect the new GeoCat Website. available.

../_images/geocat-live-theme.png — GeoCat Live Theme (Preview)

Demo requests

The demo requests has been rewritten to use JavaScript to allow for accurate client side testing of web services.

This rewrite and adds new capabilities including the welcome ability to check response headers.

The previous TestWfsPost servlet was the source of many historical security vulnerabilities making this a welcome security improvement.

../_images/demo-request.png — Demo request

OGCAPI Services

Additional OGCAPI Services are now available for preview. Integration has improved with OGCAPI Services listed for the welcome page, workspace and individual layers.