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🧭 What is Geoflip?

Geoflip is a FastAPI-based geospatial transformation engine that makes working with spatial data simple, scalable, and automation-friendly.

It provides a lightweight alternative to heavy desktop GIS by exposing spatial operations through a modern, asynchronous REST API. Geoflip is open source (Apache-2.0) and can be self-hosted or used via our free hosted platform at https://geoflip.io, which offers a clean UI for submitting jobs, uploading datasets, and downloading results.

🚨 The Problem It Solves​

Traditional GIS workflows are often:

  • Desktop-bound — tied to licensed software and installations
  • Manual — drag-and-drop tooling that doesn’t fit automation
  • Hard to scale — difficult to integrate into modern data pipelines/cloud

Geoflip solves these by providing:

  • A stateless, async API for geoprocessing
  • Readers/Writers for common formats (e.g., GeoJSON, SHP, DXF, GPKG)
  • A deployment model that works publicly (hosted) and privately (self-hosted)

🌐 Public API (Hosted)​

The hosted API lives at: https://api.geoflip.io

  • Free to use — no login or API key required
  • Data handling
    • Uploaded data is processed on Intelligis.io infrastructure
    • Outputs remain available for 1 hour, then inputs/outputs are deleted
    • We do not permanently store customer spatial data
  • Fair use — we may throttle/queue/reject abusive traffic; no SLA

See the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy on the https://geoflip.io website for details.

🏠 Self-Hosting (Open Source)​

Prefer to run it yourself? Geoflip’s source is available under Apache-2.0 and can be deployed in your environment (e.g., Docker/Kubernetes):

  • Keep data inside your network for sovereignty/compliance
  • Customize pipelines and scaling to your needs
  • Use, modify, and redistribute per the Apache-2.0 license

👉 Check the repo’s README, LICENSE, and NOTICE for usage and attribution.

🤝 Managed Hosting & Support (Optional)​

Need help operating at scale, adding features, or integrating with enterprise systems? We provide commercial support and managed/private hosting under separate agreements.

📩 [email protected]

✅ Summary​

  • Geoflip is a geospatial API with a friendly web UI
  • Use the public API at https://api.geoflip.io for quick, free workflows
  • Self-host the open-source code (Apache-2.0) when you need full control
  • Optional managed services are available from Intelligis

➡️ Next Steps​