Sunday, March 12, 2006

mapguide: MapGuide Open Source


location based services

MapGuide Open Source - Project Home

MapGuide Open Source is a new web mapping platform that was originally developed by Autodesk and contributed to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Learn more, get involved or download the software today. There are several ways to participate either as a user or developer. Your participation is welcome!

MapGuide Open Source 1.0.0 - Release Candidate 1 is now available. A few remaining defects are currently being fixed, and we anticipate the final release to be available later in March.

Description

Click For Full Size ImageMapGuide Open Source is a web-based platform that enables users to quickly 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 storing and managing content, and supports most popular geospatial file formats, databases, and standards. The MapGuide platform can be deployed on Linux or Microsoft Windows, supports Apache and IIS web servers, and offers extensive PHP, .NET, Java, and JavaScript APIs for application development.

MapGuide Open Source is free, open source software licensed under the LGPL.

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