History License

MapServer was originally written by Stephen Copyright () 1996-2005 Regents of the University of Lime in 1996. Major funding for development of Minnesota. MapServer has been provided by NASA through cooperative argreements with the University of Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated Minnesota, Department of Forest Resources. documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software Currently, MapServer project is coordinated by without restriction, including without limitation the rights to (1) Open Source Geospatial Foundation – a use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, foundation created in 2005 for promoting the use and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to and development of open source geospatial whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the technologies. Companies such as Autodesk ® following conditions: and DM Solutions are commited to OSGEO Spatially enabling your goals. The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies of this Software or works derived maps through the web from this Software. 1. Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND Credits NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR •The MapServer was written by Stephen Lime. Major COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, funding for development of MapServer has been provided DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF •Flexibility by NASA through cooperative argreements with the CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR University of Minnesota, Department of Forest Resources. •Performance OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. •PHP/MapScript developed by DM Solutions Group. •GDAL/OGR support and significant WMS support provided •Reliability by DM Solutions Group which received funding support from Canadian Government's GeoConnections Program and the Additional information: •Interoperability Canadian Forest Service. •Raster support developed by Pete Olson of the State of Minnesota, Land Management Information Center, and maintained by Frank Warmerdam (DM Solutions). MapServer home page •PostGIS spatial database support provided by Dave Blasby http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu of Refractions Research. •PDF support developed by Jeff Spielberg and Jamie Wall or of Market Insite Group, Inc. •OracleSpatial support developed by Rodrigo Cabral of CTTMAR/UNIVALI, Brazil. •Portions Copyright (c) 1998 State of Minnesota, Land Management Information Center. •Portions derived from Shapelib, Copyright 1995-1999 Frank Warmerdam. http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu •Supporting packages are covered by their own copyrights. http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu MapServer Features Supported formats

MapServer is a set of Open Source tools for •Supports dozens of industry standard raster and Vector data: Raster data: Arc/Info Binary Coverage Arc/Info Binary Grid (.adf) building spatially-enabled vector formats – see section Supported formats Comma Separated Value ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster applications and services. MapServer applications DODS/OPeNDAP Envisat Image Product (.n1) •Spatial Databases connection support: – usually refered as “webmapping applications” or DWG Erdas Imagine (.img) ArcSDE, Oracle Spatial, PostGIS, MySQL & ODBC DXF ECW (ERMapper) “webGIS” – deploy as major advantages: ESRI ArcSDE ESRI .hdr Labelled • Geographical Data Centralization •Automatic Legend, Scale Bar and Reference Map ESRI Personal Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) GeoDatabase GRASS Rasters • No setup is needed at the end user’s machine – generation ESRI ShapeFiles Hierarchical Data Format (4 & 5) instant access through web browsers •Scale based rules for FMEObjects Idrisi Raster • Interoperability – allows to integrate different GIS GML ILWIS Raster Map (.mpr,.mpl) rendering objects GRASS JPEG JFIF (.jpg) dataset on an unique enviroment •On-the-fly projection for INTERLIS JPEG2000 Mapinfo Meteosat Second Generation vector and raster data Microstation DGN MrSID MySQL spatial extension PCI Geomatics Database File Users •Sophisticated rule-based labeling system ODBC PCRaster (.map) •access using Internet •TrueType labeling and support for curved labels OGDI Vectors Portable Network Graphics (.png) Oracle Spatial RadarSat2 XML (product.xml) Explorer, FireFox •Spatial and attribute-based query support •no setup is needed PostGIS Raster Matrix Format (*.rsw, .mtw) •MapScript API – brings up MapServer objects S-57 (ENC) SAR CEOS SDTS SGI Image Format available for programming languages ( C#, PHP, SQLite TIFF / GeoTIFF (.tif) Python, Java, Ruby and Perl) U.S. Census TIGER/Line USGS ASCII DEM (.dem) UK .NTF Vexcel MFF •On-the-fly classification and resampling of raster data VRT - Virtual Datasource VTP Binary Terrain Format (.bt) Map •OGC (1) compliant (and more) Server MapServer uses GDAL and OGR libraries for providing access to a wide variety of raster and vector data formats. Full formats list is available at http://www.gdal.org .

Output supported formats: GIF JPEG Vector dataset PNG DXF WebServices PDF Spatial •WMS SVG •WFS SWF Databases Raster dataset 1. Open Geospatial Consortium WBMP http://www.opengeospatial.org (GDAL formats) * MapServer implements the following specifications: WMS, WFS, WCS, WMC, GML, SLD & Filter Encoding.

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