Standard	Premium
One-click configuration wizard
Shapefile support
Personal geo-databases
TIFF images
Basic metadata properties
Contacts management
Data licenses management
Local publishing
Publish to multiple servers
Profile support (INSPIRE, Dutch profile)
ArcSDE geodatabase

Symbology

ArcGIS renderers

Renderer	Supported
Features
Single symbol
Categories
Unique values
Unique values, many fields
Match to symbols in a style A default Single symbol renderer is used
Quantities
Graduated colors
Graduated symbols
Proportional symbols
Dot density Layer symbols are processed, but no dot density symbols
Charts (Only for GeoServer SLD: the Chart API must be installed on GeoServer)
Pie
Bar/Column
Stacked
Multiple attributes
Quantity by category

Point symbols

Renderer	Supported
Character marker symbol The font should be available to GeoServer
Simple Marker symbol Supported SLD markers: circle, square, cross and X, Diamond is drawn as a circle
Picture Marker Symbol Replaced by a simple fill symbol
Arrow Marker Symbol Drawn as a triangle simple marker symbol

Line symbols

Renderer	Supported
Cartographic Line Symbol
Hash Line symbol
Marker Line Symbol
Picture Marker Symbol Replaced by a simple fill symbol
Simple Line Symbol

Polygon symbols

Renderer	Supported
Line fill symbol
Marker Fill symbol
Picture Fill Symbol Replaced by a simple fill symbol
Simple Fill Symbol

Labeling

Feature	Supported
Halo
Multiple fields labeling Programming expressions are not supported
Rotation

Important remarks about symbology

ArcGIS supports several layer renderers and symbol types. An overview of supported renderers and possible limitations during conversion to Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) files has being provided. The conversion is optimized for GeoServer supporting some of the SLD extensions that are provided, like dynamic symbolizers and chart renderers.

Although using GeoServer SLD extensions help to provide a high quality rendering, ArcGIS Desktop provides very powerful renderers that not always can be preserved exactly when exporting to SLD. We are working continuously in improve it, but some limitations arise like:

• Font symbols: the fonts used in legends of the layers configured in ArcGIS Desktop should be installed in the GeoServer server. This is not always possible due to copyright limitations, for example for ESRI fonts. The SLD engine tries to map some of the ESRI font symbols to Webdings and Wingdings font symbols, but also requires that these fonts are available in the server.

  Future releases of Bridge extension are planned to provide a set of open source symbol fonts that can be used both in ArcGIS desktop and GeoServer to improve the rendering of font symbols.

• Picture symbol: are not supported now as GeoServer doesn't provide a method to publish the images with the SLD. Next versions of Bridge extension is planned to provide GeoServer custom extensions to support the publishing of images.