MapGuide Open Source¶

Web Service¶

MapGuide Open Source is a web-based platform that enables users to develop and deploy web mapping applications and geospatial web services. MapGuide features an interactive viewer that includes support for feature selection, property inspection, map tips, and operations such as buffer, select within, and measure.

MapGuide includes an XML database for managing content. Maestro allows users to edit the XML database and build a website without writing a single line of code. MapGuide also supports most popular geospatial file formats, databases, and standards.

MapGuide can be deployed on Linux or Windows, supports Apache and IIS web servers, and offers extensive PHP, .NET, Java, and JavaScript APIs for application development. MapGuide Open Source is licensed under the LGPL.

Note

Due to space constraints, MapGuide is currently not installed on OSGeo-Live.

Core Features¶

Interactive Map Viewing

Dynamic browser-based viewer
Feature selection and properties
Buffering, querying
Printing and Plotting

Quality Cartographic Output

Scale-dependent detail
Rule-driven thematic stylization
Anti-aliased image rendering
True color support

Build-in Resource Database for Manageability

Hierarchical storage of XML resource documents that define maps, layers, data connections
Define data sources and layers once and use them in multiple maps
Access-based security model with inheritable permissions

Uniform Data Access

Exclusive use of the Feature Data Objects (FDO) API for vector and raster data
Provides a standardized way to access a variety of data sources including SHP, SDF, Oracle, MySQL, and PostGIS.

Flexible Application Development

Develop your applications in PHP, .NET, or Java

Extensive Server-Side APIs

Create, query, read, and write permanent and session based XML resource documents
Query and update feature data
Perform coordinate reprojection
Create, manipulate, and analyze geometry
Manipulate runtime maps and layers

Fast, Scalable, Secure Server Platform