Compliance with OGC specifications
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Web Map Service (WMS) | Returns map images and simple map queries. | Mapbuilder is a WMS client. |
Web Feature Service (WFS) | Provides read access vector data in a geographic database via a web interface. | Mapbuilder is a WFS client. A WFS layer can be constructed in the MapPane. GML responses can be rendered as vector features in the MapPane or as an attributeList. |
Web Feature Service - Transactional (WFS-T) | Same as WFS, but also provides write access. | WFS-T create, delete, edit are all supported. |
Web Map Context (WMC) | Stores all context information for a map display, including list of WMS layers, width, height, boundingBox, projection, etc. Only WMS layers are supported. | WMC can be loaded, edited and saved. |
Open Web Services Context (OWS Context) | Similar to WMC, but it can store more than just WMS layers. Layers can come from WMS, WFS, GML, GeoRSS, and possibly external sources. | OWS Context is supported from version 1.5, with some limitations on the datasources that can be rendered. |
Geographic Really Simple Syndication (GeoRSS) | Format for storing information and associated geography. | From version 1.5, GeoRSS support is provided. |
Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) | Describes how to render features. Eg: All roads with type=highway should have color=red and stroke=3 pixels wide. | * SLD Editor. (added in version 1.5) |
Geographic Markup Language (GML) | XML description of greographic features. | * Vector rendering of GML added in ~ version 0.4. This uses the WZGraphics rendering which is slow and can only really render around 10 lines or 100 points. |
Open Source Geospatial Stack
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WMS | WFS | GeoRSS | GML |
Geoserver | Mapserver | Filesystem |
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PostGIS | SLD |
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