Thursday, August 10, 2006

Mapbender

location based services

Mapbender is an Open Source Geospatial Foundation project and all about maps! Have a look at this map application. You can zoom in, out, pan, click and query, turn layers on and off or add more maps. You can also add new points to the map with the flag button, all Mapbender operators are invited to do so. There are many different possibilities to make use of maps, see some more examples in the Mapbender Gallery. Please observe that this software only shows and manages maps. The maps themselves come from many different Map Services all over the world.
Mapbender is the software and portal site for geodata management of OGC OWS architectures. The software provides web technology for managing spatial data services implemented in PHP, JavaScript and XML. It provides a data model and interfaces for displaying, navigating and querying OGC compliant map services. The Mapbender framework furthermore provides authentication and authorization services, OWS proxy functionality, management interfaces for user, group and service administration in WebGIS projects.

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