MapGuide Open Source

Core features

• Interactive Map Viewing

  • Offers a basic "AJAX" viewer
  • Or an advanced "Fusion" flexible viewer with more out-of-the-box functionality and customizable viewer templates
  • Or, you can roll your own viewer easily with OpenLayers
  • Allows feature selection by point, rectangle, radius, or polygon with immediate feedback
  • Displays feature properties in multi-line tool tips
  • Displays properties of the selected feature in a property browser panel
  • Supports built-in tools for spatial analysis, such as buffering, measuring and querying features within selected polygons
  • Provides printing and plotting support

• Quality Cartographic Output

  • Scale-dependent detail
  • Rule-driven thematic layer stylization
  • Dynamic labeling with overpost detection, labels that follow the path of a line, and automatic label resizing
  • Anti-aliased image rendering
  • True color support
  • TrueType font support

• Built-in Resource Database for Manageability

  • Provides hierarchical storage of XML resource documents that define maps, layers, data connections, symbology, and viewer layout
  • Allows you to define data sources and layers once and then reference them from multiple maps for maximum reusability
  • Provides an access-based security model with inheritable permissions
  • Permits metadata and binary data to be associated with resource documents

• Uniform Data Access

  • Exclusive use of the Feature Data Objects (FDO) API for vector and raster feature data access
  • Support for ESRI SHP, SDF and SQLite vector file formats
  • Support for Oracle, SQL Server Spatial, MySQL, PostGIS and ODBC database formats
  • Support for additional Raster file formats via FDO Provider for GDAL
  • Support for additional vector file formats via FDO Provider for OGR
  • Support for OGC WMS and WFS

• Extensive Server-Side APIs

  • Create, query, read, and write permanent and session based XML resource documents
  • Query and update feature data across all supported data sources, including spatial and attribute data, and schema discovery
  • Perform coordinate reprojection and great circle distance computation
  • Create, manipulate, and analyze geometry with support for common spatial predicates (touches, intersects, etc) and geometric operations (buffer, union, difference, etc)
  • Produce stylized vector and raster maps and legends
  • Manipulate the state of the currently viewed map and legend

• Broad Coordinate System support

  • Uses the powerful CS-Map coordinate system transformation library with support for several thousand coordinate systems
  • Raster and vector data of different coordinate systems are automatically re-projected on the fly to match your map

• Your platform, your choice

  • Deploy on Windows or Linux
  • Serve your MapGuide applications from Apache httpd or Microsoft IIS
  • Extend your MapGuide applications with the MapGuide API available in .net, Java or PHP