MapServer was originally developed by the University of Minnesota (UMN) ForNet project in cooperation with NASA, and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MNDNR). Later it was hosted by the TerraSIP project, a NASA sponsored project between the UMN and a consortium of land
management interests.
MapServer is one of the founding projects of the OSGeo foundation, and is maintained by a growing number of developers (nearing 20) from around the world. It is supported by a diverse group of organizations that fund enhancements and maintenance, and administered within OSGeo by the MapServer Project Steering Committee made up of developers and other contributors. All source code is openly available via GitHub.
- Advanced cartographic output
- Scale dependent feature drawing and application execution
- Feature labeling including label collision mediation
- Fully customizable, template driven output
- TrueType fonts
- Map element automation (scalebar, reference map, and legend)
- Thematic mapping using logical- or regular expression-based classes
- Support for popular scripting and development environments
- PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, and .NET
- Cross-platform support
- Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, and more
- Support of numerous Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards
- WMS (client/server), non-transactional WFS (client/server), WMC, WCS, Filter Encoding, SLD, GML, SOS, OM
- A multitude of raster and vector data formats
- TIFF/GeoTIFF, NetCDF, MrSID, ECW, and many others via GDAL
- ESRI shapfiles, PostGIS, SpatiaLite, ESRI ArcSDE, Oracle Spatial, MySQL and many others via OGR
- Map projection support
- On-the-fly map projection with 1000s of projections through the PROJ.4 library
http://mapserver.org/
Magnacarto - a CartoCSS map style processor that generates Mapnik XML and MapServer map files.
https://github.com/omniscale/magnacarto/
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