Welcome. GDAL: GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library. Your Open Source Compass. Systèmes d'Information Géographique. SQLite - SpatiaLite: le pourquoi du comment. PostGIS : Home. Carmenta - Geospatial Innovations. Welcome to MapServer — MapServer 6.0.3 documentation. MapServer. MapServer is an open source development environment for building spatially enabled internet applications.
It can run as a CGI program or via MapScript which supports several programming languages (using SWIG). MapServer was developed by the University of Minnesota — so, it is often and more specifically referred as "UMN MapServer", to distinguish it from commercial "map server". MapServer was originally developed with support from NASA, which needed a way to make its satellite imagery available to the public.[1] Open Source Geospatial Foundation[edit] Timeline[edit] Welcome - GeoServer. GeoServer. Goals[edit] GeoServer aims to operate as a node within a free and open Spatial Data Infrastructure.
Just as the Apache HTTP Server has offered a free and open web server to publish HTML, GeoServer aims to do the same for geospatial data. Features[edit]