About Mapbuilder
MapBuilder is a powerful, standards compliant geographic mapping client which runs in a web browser.
 | Recent Releases
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 are new to Mapbuilder, this is what you should use. Download 1.0.1 Release.
Development Community Mapbuilder 1.5 (alpha1): Released with tonnes of new features - but still has bugs in the new functionality. Have a look, but don't deploy it. Press release and Download 1.5 (alpha1).
GML Viewer 1.0 Deploy your GML datasets with a simple GML Viewer web page. Uses SVG/VML for fast vector rendering. Press release and Free download. |
Key Features
- Browser based mapping client
- 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
- Fast and interactive - built using AJAX
- Works with most modern browsers (Firefox 1.0+, Internet Explorer 6.0+, Mozilla 1.3+, Navigator 6+)
- Customisable and easy to extend
- Open source under the LGPL licence
If you wish to learn more, you can try the on-line interactive tutorial or the Examples and read the on-line user-guide.
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Mapbuilder in Action

 | Our mission is
To empower communities to collaboratively build and share geographic data using standards- based, open source tools. |
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