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Architectures and organizations

Understand how components connect and which responsibilities remain with your team. Organizational examples distinguish documented open-source use from an assumed complete replacement of ArcGIS.

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Architectures and organizations

  1. PostGIS · GeoServer · pygeoapi · ArcGIS

    State-of-the-art GIS architecture in 2026: two complete blueprints

    Two complete GIS architectures—one open and cloud-native, one centred on ArcGIS Enterprise 12.1—compared layer by layer and adapted to Colombia.

  2. H3 · Apache Pinot

    Uber, H3 and Pinot: GIS inside a digital product

    Understand Uber’s published H3/Pinot analytical workflow, its limits, and a practical path from PostGIS analysis to a larger event architecture.

  3. OpenStreetMap · MapLibre

    Meta and open mapping: data, styles and distribution

    Trace Meta’s 2023 open basemap workflow, the 2024 Daylight sunset and the data, rendering and update responsibilities a LATAM team must own.

  4. pygeoapi · WIS2 · OGC API

    WMO, wis2box and pygeoapi: institutional data exchange

    Explain how wis2box combines ingestion, storage, pygeoapi and notifications, and what a generic OGC API still needs for institutional exchange.