MapServer

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Cartography

Features include scale dependent drawing, label collision mediation, customizable template driven output, and thematic mapping.mapserver.org · read 5 Oct 2026

Data formats

Its documentation lists raster formats through GDAL and vector sources including shapefiles, PostGIS, SpatiaLite, GeoPackage, FlatGeobuf, Oracle Spatial, and MySQL through OGR.mapserver.org · read 5 Oct 2026

Governance

MapServer is an OSGeo founding project maintained by developers and administered within OSGeo by the MapServer Project Steering Committee.mapserver.org · read 5 Oct 2026

OGC standards

The project lists support for WMS, non-transactional WFS, WMC, WCS, Filter Encoding, SLD, GML, SOS, OM, and OGC API: Features.mapserver.org · read 5 Oct 2026

Platforms and languages

The project lists Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, and support for PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, and .NET.mapserver.org · read 5 Oct 2026

Projections

MapServer supports on the fly map projection through the PROJ library.mapserver.org · read 5 Oct 2026

Related tools

The MapServer suite includes MapCache for tile caching and TinyOWS for transactional WFS requests.mapserver.org · read 5 Oct 2026

Security configuration

The documentation recommends restricting mapfile access with MS_MAP_PATTERN or MS_MAP_NO_PATH, or hiding the MAP parameter on public servers.mapserver.org · read 5 Oct 2026

Security history

The project archive says maintenance releases in April 2021 addressed a security flaw involving processing the MAP parameter.mapserver.org · read 5 Oct 2026

Support

The project directs users to a list of companies offering professional MapServer support.mapserver.org · read 5 Oct 2026

What it does

MapServer is an open source geographic data rendering engine written in C that creates interactive geographic image maps.mapserver.org · read 5 Oct 2026

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