GeoGirafe is a WebGIS application designed from the ground up to be owned and shaped by its user community. Rather than relying on heavyweight frameworks or vendor ecosystems, GeoGirafe embraces a lean, modular architecture keeping the barrier to contribution low and long-term maintainability high.

Features

Version 1.0, released in late 2025, ships with a comprehensive feature set:

• WMS, WMTS, WFS, Vector Tiles and COG support
• Advanced drawing and measurement tools
• Full-text search across features, thematics and layers
• Cross-section view with LiDAR profile
• Sharing tools (iframes and permalinks)
• 3D views, drawings and shadow simulation
• Layer WFS filtering

GeoGirafe works as a standalone application or can be extended with an optional backend, unlocking:

• OpenID Connect authentication
• Themes, layers and column-level permissions
• Secured printing service

Three major features are underway for 2026:

• Editing via OGC API Features (backed by QGIS Server or pygeoapi)
• Advanced filtering (multi-criterion and spatial predicates)
• Panoramic road-level photo viewer

Key Objectives

• Community Governance: Roadmap and technical decisions are driven by the community, not by any single organization. This collective ownership model keeps the project aligned with real-world needs.
• Sustainability: Every architectural choice is made with the long term in mind. By avoiding monolithic framework dependencies, GeoGirafe stays adaptable as the web evolves — without accumulating technical debt or locking contributors into a specific toolchain.
• Modularity & Extensibility: A plugin-based architecture enables teams to develop custom features independently, without forking or destabilizing the core. This makes contributions straightforward and custom developments genuinely sustainable.
• Open Collaboration: Documentation is community-maintained, and first-level support runs through a Discord server. Three companies have joined the ecosystem and offer professional-grade support for organizations that need it.