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MapServer is an Open Source geographic data rendering engine written in C, designed for fast display of dynamic maps on the Internet. Beyond browsing GIS data, MapServer allows you create “geographic image maps”, that is, maps that can direct users to content.

MapServer is an Open Source geographic data rendering engine written in C. Beyond browsing GIS data, MapServer allows you create “geographic image maps”, that is, maps that can direct users to content. For example, the Minnesota DNR Recreation Compass provides users with more than 10,000 web pages, reports and maps via a single application. The same application serves as a “map engine” for other portions of the site, providing spatial context where needed.

MapServer was originally developed by the University of Minnesota (UMN) ForNet project in cooperation with NASA, and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MNDNR). Later it was hosted by the TerraSIP project, a NASA sponsored project between the UMN and a consortium of land management interests.

MapServer is now a project of OSGeo, and is maintained by a growing number of developers (nearing 20) from around the world. It is supported by a diverse group of organizations that fund enhancements and maintenance, and administered within OSGeo by the MapServer Project Steering Committee made up of developers and other contributors.

  • Advanced cartographic output
    • Scale dependent feature drawing and application execution
    • Feature labeling including label collision mediation
    • Fully customizable, template driven output
    • TrueType fonts
    • Map element automation (scalebar, reference map, and legend)
    • Thematic mapping using logical- or regular expression-based classes
  • Support for popular scripting and development environments
    • PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, and .NET
  • Cross-platform support
    • Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, and more
  • Support of numerous Open Geospatial Consortium
  • WMS (client/server), non-transactional WFS (client/server), WMC, WCS, Filter Encoding, SLD, GML, SOS, OM
  • A multitude of raster and vector data formats
    • TIFF/GeoTIFF, EPPL7, and many others via GDAL
    • ESRI shapfiles, PostGIS, ESRI ArcSDE, Oracle Spatial, MySQL and many others via OGR
  • Map projection support
    • On-the-fly map projection with 1000s of projections through the Proj.4 library

    • Website: http://mapserver.org/

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    MapServer: Help adding data and setting up WMS

    I am trying to use MapServer to set up and run a WMS server hosting data that I have in a set of shapefiles. I have started by installing MS4W (since I thought it would be simple) and have downloaded the british_isles.shp.zip form…
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    Openlayer with OpenStreetMap(OSM) as a base Layer

    i am getting problem to put OpenLayer which is coming from my Minesotta Map Server on OSM layer as a Base Layer. when i use google map as a base layer than it works fine !. so is there possible to work as osm as a base layer and OpenLayer as…
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    can I inject/insert data into a postgressql database from a openlayers 4.4 interface

    from an openlayers 4.4 interface I want to inject created geometries and their metadata into a postgresql database by checking that they do not already exist. is it possible through mapserver and ogr or some other way?
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    Strange error returned while trying to access raster pixel value

    I am trying to access the value of a pixel served through MapServer from webapp via OpenLayers getFeatureInfoUrl(). The server responds with msWMSFeatureInfo(): WMS server error. Invalid I/J values I have tried googling it but could not find any…
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    Google Maps and Openlayers 3 integration example

    I'm using the Open Layers 3 example located at... http://openlayers.org/en/v3.0.0/examples/google-map.html ...and I have had some success. The problem I am running into is getting my OL3 vector and MapServer layers to be projected correctly over the…
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    error installing gd librarry for mapserver

    I am installing all external and required libraries before compiling and installing source code of mapserver-6.4.1 I have installed all libraries successfully except libgd. I have downloaded libgd from here I am following the below procedure to…
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    mapserver Unable to open .map file

    Warning: [MapServer Error]: msLoadMap(): in D:\ms4w\apps\seri\htdocss\common\wrapper\map_session.php on line 215 Warning: Failed to open map file D:\ms4w\apps\seri\htdocs/../map/bandi.map in D:\ms4w\apps\seri\htdocss\common\wrapper\map_session.php…
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    Create a symbol from a image in php mapsrcript

    I need to make a image symbol in code and mapscript. How should I do that? desired output:
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