MapGuide Open Source
Developer(s) | Autodesk, community-developed |
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Initial release | November 2005 |
Stable release | 3.1.2
/ March 27, 2019 |
Written in | C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows; some support for Linux |
Platform | 32-bit, 64-bit |
Type | Web mapping |
License | GNU LGPL |
Website | mapguide |
MapGuide Open Source is a web-based map-making platform that enables users to quickly develop and deploy web mapping applications and geospatial web services. The application was introduced as open-source by Autodesk in November 2005, and the code was contributed to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation in March 2006 under the GNU LGPL.
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
History
MapGuide was first introduced as Argus MapGuide in 1995 by Argus Technologies in Calgary, Alberta. In the fall of 1996, Autodesk acquired Argus Technologies and within a few months the first release under the Autodesk brand was introduced, Autodesk MapGuide 2.0. The software progressed through a number of releases leading up to the current Autodesk MapGuide 6.5. To this day MapGuide 6.5 and previous releases are known for ease of deployment, rapid application development, data connectivity, scalability, and overall performance.
Despite its success, the MapGuide 6.5 architecture has some inherent limitations. To this day most MapGuide applications rely upon a client Plug-in,
In spring 2004 a team of developers at Autodesk began work on what is now MapGuide Open Source. Their goals were to retain all of the best aspects of MapGuide 6.5 while also meeting the goals set out above. The project was then submitted to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation in March 2006 under the LGPL license.
See also
- Spatial Data File, the native file format for MapGuide
References
- Bray, Robert (2008). "Chapter 7: MapGuide Open Source". Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling. Advances in Geographic Information Science. Vol. 2. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 131–152. ISBN 978-3-540-74830-4.
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