MapServer is an open source server geo-information system that runs through the CGI interface. Originally developed by the University of Minnesota . The new version 7.2.1 was released on January 10, 2018. Details can be on the official website [3]
| MapServer | |
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| Type of | Geographic Information System |
| Developer | Stephen lime |
| Written on | C / C ++ |
| First edition | 1994 |
| Hardware platform | Cross platform |
| Latest version | |
| Beta version | 7.0.0 beta1 ( February 12, 2015 ) |
| License | X / MIT |
| Site | mapserver.org |
Main features
- Graphic features
- Scaling support
- Creating signatures of objects and their correct location on the map
- Ability to fully customize the appearance of the resulting maps using templates (mapfile)
- TrueType font support
- Automatic creation of cartographic elements (scale bar, legend, etc.)
- Creating cartograms and thematic based on mathematical and regular expressions.
- Support for popular scripting languages
- PHP , Python , Perl , Ruby , Java and .NET
- Cross-platform
- Linux , Windows , Mac OS X , Solaris , etc.
- OGC standards support
- WMS, WFS, WMC, WCS, SLD, GML, SOS, OM
- Support for multiple raster and vector formats
- TIFF / GeoTIFF, EPPL7 and others, using the features of the GDAL library
- ESRI shapfiles, PostGIS, ESRI ArcSDE, Oracle Spatial, MySQL and many others, through the OGR library
- Map projection support
- On-the-fly reprojection using Proj.4 library
See also
- Geoserver