Features of mapserver

Features

• Advanced cartographic output
  • Scale dependent feature drawing and application execution
  • Feature labeling including label collision mediation
  • Fully customizable, template driven output
  • TrueType fonts
  • Map element automation (scalebar, reference map, and legend)
  • Thematic mapping using logical- or regular expression-based classes
• Support for popular scripting and development environments
• PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, and C#
• Cross-platform support
  • Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, and more
• A multitude of raster and vector data formats
  • TIFF/GeoTIFF, EPPL7, and many others via GDAL
  • ESRI shapfiles, PostGIS, ESRI ArcSDE, Oracle Spatial, MySQL and many others via OGR
  • Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web specifications
    • WMS (client/server), non-transactional WFS (client/server), WMC, WCS, Filter Encoding, SLD, GML, SOS
• Map projection support
  • On-the-fly map projection with 1000s of projections through the Proj.4 library