Mapbuilder

mapbuilder-lib is a browser based web mapping client for Open GIS Services.

Uses don't need to download software or browser pluggins to use mapbuilder-lib. Once downloaded, user actions are processed quickly - there is no [refresh map] button to rebuild map images on the server.

Features

Functionality:

• Browser based client.
• Browsers supported: Internet Explorer 6+, Mozilla 1.3+, Netscape 6+.
• Fast client side responses.
• Configurable web sites.
• Open Source under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Specific clients:

• WMS Map Viewer.
• WMS Time Series Map Viewer.
• Geographic Feature Viewer (using GML and/or WFS technologies)
• Geographic Feature editor and upload to a web based geographic database (WFS-T).
• Web Map Context editor (used to build layers in a map)

Available Widgets:

• Map Pane
• Legend
• Layer List (hide/unhide layers)
• Gazetteer (select locations from a pull down list)

Open GIS Standards supported:

• Web Map Service (WMS) client
• Time Series Web Map Service (WMS) client
• Web Map Context (WMC) client
• Web Feature Service (WFS) client
• Transactional Web Feature Service (WFS-T) client
• Geographic Markup Language rendering

Technical Specs:

• Modular design means that extra functionality is easily incorporated.
• The code is written in Object Oriented Javascript and XSL with some servers scripts - you can pick PHP or JSP versions of the scripts.

License

mapbuilder-lib is open source, released under the GNU General Public License and is owned jointly by the Community Mapbuilder Project Committee (PMC) members.

Web-Links

• http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net/