MapServer

MapServer is an Open Source development environment for constructing spatially enabled Internet-web applications. The software builds upon other popular Open Source or freeware systems including Shapelib, ))FreeType((, Proj.4, GDAL/OGR. MapServer will run where most commercial systems won't or can't, on Linux/Apache platforms. MapServer is known to compile on most versions of UNIX/Linux, Microsoft Windows and even MacOS.

MapServer supports several Open Geospatial Consortium web specifications: WMS (client/server), non-transactional WFS (client/server), WCS (server only), WMC, SLD, GML and Filter Encoding.

The MapServer system includes ))MapScriptthat allows popular scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, Python, and Java to access the MapServer C API.?MapScriptprovides a rich environment for developing applications that integrate disparate data. If your data have a spatial component, and you can get to the data via your favorite scripting environment, then you can map it with?MapScript((. For example, using Perl's DBI module it is possible to integrate data from just about any database vendor (e.g. Oracle, Sybase, MySQL) with traditional GIS data in a single map graphic or web page.

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