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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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