Features
Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2006-12-09 01:40.
MapGuide Open Source is a web-based platform that enables users to quickly develop and deploy web mapping applications and geospatial web services.
Interactive Map Viewing
- Offers an AJAX Viewer (no plug-in required), a "Fusion" flexible viewer (no plug-in required)
- AJAX Viewer offers a tiled map display for smooth navigation
- "Fusion" viewer offers identical functionality to the AJAX viewer with greater emphasis on flexible style and functionality. Built on top of the popular OpenLayers library
- 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 feature buffering, querying features that fall within selected polygons, and a tool for measuring distance
- 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
- 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 ESRI ArcSDE, MySQL, PostGIS, SQL Server Spatial and ODBC database formats
- Support for Raster file formats via GDAL
- Support for OGC WMS and WFS
- Exclusive use of DWF for CAD-based data access
Flexible Application Development
- Write your application logic once within the web server environment and it will work with either viewer on any client
- 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 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 spatial predicates based on the DE-9IM model, overlay functions (intersection, union, difference, symmetric difference), buffer, convex hull, area, and distance functions
- Produce stylized vector and raster maps and legends
- Manipulate runtime maps and layers, add / remove / change layers, change layer and group visibility, modify the definition of a layer, and alter the current view
Fast, Scalable, Secure Server Platform
- Fully multi-threaded and takes advantage of multi-core / multi-processor technology
- Multiple servers can be configured as one logical site to improve scalability
- FastCGI based Map Agent loads once and stays loaded for use with both Apache and Microsoft IIS
- Database connections are pooled and shared between users, improving performance
- Tile caching ensures map image tiles are only rendered once for the AJAX Viewer no matter how many users are viewing the map
- Connection-oriented, role-based security
- Configurable logging of client access, administrative access, authentication attempts, errors, session lifetimes, and request tracing
- Web-based site administration allows remote site and server configuration, and log file access
Multiple Platform Support
- Deploy on Microsoft Windows or Linux
- Serve applications with Apache or Microsoft IIS
- Browse applications with Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari
Open Geospatial Consortium Standards
- Web Map Service
- Web Feature Service