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About MapBuilder

MapBuilder is a powerful, standards compliant geographic mapping client which runs in a web browser.

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title	Recent Releases

Development Community Mapbuilder 1.5 (rc2): Introduces a broad set of new features, including:

Vector rendering using OpenLayers
Base layers like Google Maps
Improved coordinate reprojection
Compatibility with Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 3.

If you are new to Mapbuilder or want to take advantage of recent feature additions, you should use this release. Download 1.5 (rc2).

Stable Community MapBuilder 1.0.1 Release: This is a minor release which replaces obsolete WMS services with new ones and fixes a few minor bugs. If you intend to use Mapbuilder in productive environments, this is what you should use. Download 1.0.1 Release.

Key Features

Browser based mapping client
Excels at transforming and rendering XML documents (like GML, Context etc) using XSLT in the browser.
Standards compliant, supports the Open Geospatial consortium(OGC) standards
Renders maps from Web Map Services (WMS), Web Feature Services (WFS), GeoRSS, Google Maps
Supports editing map features to Transactional Web Feature Services (WFS-T)
Allows users to build their own maps, then save and share them, using Web Map Context (WMC) and Open Web Services Context

Easy to use

Fast and interactive - built using AJAX
Works with most modern browsers (Firefox 1.0+, Internet Explorer 6.0+, Mozilla 1.3+)
Customisable and easy to extend
Open source under the LGPL licence