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General
- GDAL/OGR Project
- Main home page for GDAL and OGR components used by MapServer for supporting various raster and vector formats. GDAL/OGR also provides some useful utilities for pre-processing data, building overviews and building tile indexes.
- GRASS GIS project
- Commonly referred to as GRASS, this is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization. GRASS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies.
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Mac OS X Binaries
- Link to installers for Mapserver 4.6.1 binaries and supporting libraries pre-compiled for Mac OS X. Provided by William Kyngesburye.
- MapTools.org
- MapTools.org hosts mapping related open source projects. Hosted projects include: FWTools, MS4W, Chameleon, MapLab, OWTChart, PHP MapScript, and ROSA.
- Old MapServer Wiki
- The old (pre 2005) MapServer wiki. The contents are frozen but there may be many useful topics here not available elsewhere.
External Documentation
- Information about Projections
- "So cartography is an art and science of trade-offs and guidelines for designing and choosing the least inappropriate projection for each purpose."
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MapServer Test Suite
- The MapServer "Test Suite" is a series of examples showing the many features of the most recent MapServer release. In most cases they are extremely simple examples, presenting enough information to show users how a certain function is used. The suite will continue to grow as MapServer matures. In most cases a link to templates and map files are provided. Since template files have a .html extension your browser will try to display the document. Use the view source capability of your browser to see how the template is structured.
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ne@polis MapFile Reference
- An excellent, fully illustrated MapFile reference.
- MapServer Introduction in italian
- A brief introduction to MapServer (update 2007-05-24)
- Italian Mapfile Reference
- A useful italian MapFile guide (update 2007-02-06)
Utilities
- ArcMap mxd to ArcIMS axl and MapServer map Converter
- This tool converts ArcMap views (all layers in the view) into ArcIMS (ArcXML .axl) and MapServer (.map) configuration files, both for shapefiles and for raster files.
- ArcView/ArcGIS Mapfile Extension
- Open source ArcView 3.x ("AveiN!") and ArcGIS 9 ("AmeiN!") extensions that allow the easy creation of map files. Provided and maintained by Terrestris.
- ArcView Utility
- An ArcView utility written in Avenue to create a Mapfile from an ArcView view. Also included is a Java applet that can be used to display MapServer images; the applet talks directly to the Web server so that html is not updated each time a MapServer request is sent. More details are provided in an accompanying Readme.html file.
- Chameleon
- A highly customizable and adaptable environment for deploying and managing Web mapping applications. Chameleon incorporates the ability to quickly set up new applications from a common pool of widgets that can be placed in an HTML template file.
- HostGIS Linux
- A Linux distribution for serving maps. HostGIS Linux has everything you need to deploy MapServer-based mapping solutions: MapServer and Mapscript, a PostGIS-enabled Postgres database, and example applications.
- GIS-Knoppix
- A bootable Linux CD with pre-installed GIS software. It is based on Knoppix and has MapServer and MapLab installed.
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Gix Export Tool
- This extension helps GIS developers to migrate ESRI ArcView projects to the most popular Free and Open Source alternatives for Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
- GMap PHP/Mapscript Sample Application
- A full PHP/Mapscript application available for download, includes data, mapfile, and all php files. Also available as an MS4W package.
- JBox Utility
- A Java Applet, previously named "Mapplet", contributed by Steve Lime, that allow users to zoom-in or query by drawing a box on the map, pan, measure distances, and display cursor coordinates. The zip file contains jBox source code, Java class files and a README file.
- ka-Map
- An open source project that is aimed at providing a javascript API for developing highly interactive web-mapping interfaces using features available in modern web browsers.
- MapClient
- A browser interface for MapServer.
- MapDesk
- A MapServer based map editor and viewer.The built-in map file editor supports syntax highlighting, context-sensitive help and a preview function.
- MapLab
- An open source suite of web-based tools that allow for the easy creation and management of MapServer web mapping applications and map files.
- MapServer Console
- MapServer Console is a Java program that generates a valid .map file from an AXL file. The AXL File can be created with the freely available ArcExplorer from esri and thus rapid map development is enabled especially when thematic maps are involved.
- MapServer Workbench
- A set of cooperative tools for development of MapServer web mapping applications.
- MapStorer
- MapStorer is a database supported system for managing UMN MapServer projects. It allows users to edit map projects via a web browser and create MapServer configuration files (mapfiles) on the fly. Usually mapfiles are simple text files, which have to be edited by hand. MapStorer makes it possible to maintain UMN mapping projects via an easy-to-use web frontend - and ingnore the internal details of a mapfile.
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p.mapper
- A MapServer PHP/MapScript framework designed to assist in the development of PHP/MapScript applications.
- Rubber-band Zoombox Utility
- This utility is a JavaScript applet for creating a rubber-band zoombox.
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GEOLIVRE LINUX
- This bootable Linux CD is a Kurumin and Debian-based Brazilian distribution with a collection of specialist software for geographical work. Among the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software included in the distribution are: UMN MapServer, PostGIS, Open 3D GIS, Generic Mapping Tools (GMT), GRASS (geospatial data management and analysis), uDig (a geospacial application and platform), JUMP Unified Mapping Platform, Terraview, Spring (a remote sensing image processing system), Quantum GIS, Thuban (a multiplatform geographic data viewer), and QCad.
- dBox application framework
- Code behind the MN DNR Landview application packaged up and documented. (finally)
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slaxGIS-080402B
- slaxGIS is a collection of GIS software packages meant to be added to the slax 6.0.x live USB distribution. slaxGIS includes the following software: MapServer 5.0.2, Chameleon 2.6.0 RC1, GRASS 6.3.0 RC6, PostgreSQL 8.3.1, PostGIS 1.3.2, OpenJUMP PIROL 1.2.B, uDig 1.1 RC14. Besides these software packages, all the packages they need are included too (such as libraries, Proj, Gdal/OGR...) .
- KMLMapServer project
- KMLMapServer turns any working mapserver installation in a KML/KMZ server. Written in PHP5 mapscript, supports vectors and rasters and simple caching.
Text Editors
- SciTE Syntax File for .map Files
- Syntax file for highlighting of .map keywords in the SciTE editor.
- TextPad Syntax File for .map Files
- Syntax file for highlighting of .map keywords in TextPad. Valid for v4.x mapfiles.
- UltraEdit Syntax File for .map Files
- Syntax file for highlighting of .map keywords in UltraEdit.
- vi/Vim Syntax File for .map Files
- Syntax file for highlighting of .map keywords in the vi and Vim editors. Valid for v4.x mapfiles. Install instructions can be found in http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/vim-syntax-howto
- Notepad++ Syntax File for .map Files
- Syntax file for highlighting of .map keywords in the Notepad++ editor.
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