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Mapbuilder

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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.