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