Mapfish Appserver

Mapfish Appserver is a platform for building web mapping applications using OGC standards and the Mapfish REST protocol.

Features

Mapfish Appserver comes with the following out-of-the box features:

Organize maps by topics, categories, organisational units, keywords and more
Combine maps with background and overlay topics with adjustable opacity
Import UMN Mapserver mapfiles to publish new topics within seconds
Fully customizable legends and feature infos
Creation of complex custom searches
Rich digitizing and editing functionality
Role-based access control on topic, layer and attribute level
Access control for WMS and WFS
Rich library of ExtJS 4 based map components
Multiple customizable viewers from minimal mobile viewer to full featured portal
Multi-site support
Built-in administration backend
Self-organized user groups

Documentation

For more documentation see the mapfish-appserver.github.io

Note: Mapfish Appserver v1.1.0 or later no longer uses the gb_mapfish_print gem, but uses a separately installed Mapfish Print v3 for printing (see documentation)

Authors and License

Primary authors are Pirmin Kalberer and Mathias Walker, Sourcepole, Stefan Zinggeler and Adrian Herzog, Canton of Zurich.

New BSD License