Monday, June 22, 2009

MapGuide Open Source: MapGuide Open Source 2.1 is now available

MapGuide Open Source is a free web mapping platform that enables users to quickly develop and deploy web mapping applications and geospatial web services. MapGuide features an interactive viewer that includes support for feature selection, property inspection, map tips, and operations such as buffer, select within, and measure. MapGuide includes an XML database for managing content, and supports most popular geospatial file formats, databases, and standards. MapGuide can be deployed on Linux or Windows, supports Apache and IIS web servers, and offers extensive PHP, .NET, Java, and JavaScript APIs for application development. MapGuide Open Source is licensed under the LGPL.

Here is the URL to download MapGuide Open Source.

http://mapguide.osgeo.org/download

In order to take full advatage of MapGuide Open Source, you'll also need to download Maestro. I'll post a blog about Maestro later today......