OSGEO list of webmapping tools¶
Note
For completeness sake, the original of the following list was retrieved from http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/A_comprehensive_list_of_webmapping_toolkits.
| Software | Last release (date) | Description | Licence | Map engines and protocols | Language |
| AtlasMapper | 1.3 (2012-11) | The AtlasMapper is a cross platform JavaScript/Java mapping application that allows a catalogue of map layers to be easily browsed, layered, re-styled and compared side-by-side in a web browser. | GPLv3 | WMS, NCWMS, ArcGIS Server, XYZ / OSM | Java, JavaScript (GetExt, Openlayers, Ext JS) |
| CartoWeb | 3.5.0 (2008-09-04) Inactive | CartoWeb is a comprehensive and ready-to-use Web-GIS as well as a convenient framework for building advanced and customised applications. | GPLv2.0+ | See MapServer | PHP |
| Chameleon | 2.4.1 (2006.09.06) Inactive | Chameleon is a distributed, highly configurable, environment for developing Web Mapping applications. It is built on MapServer as the core mapping engine and works with all MapServer supported data formats through a regular MAP file. | MIT | See MapServer, WMS | PHP |
| collective.geo (Plone Maps) | Active | The goal is to provide a comprehensive set of tools to manage and publish geospatial data into the Plone, using existing and proven technologies as much as possible. | GPLv2.0 | (See OpenLayers, Polymaps) | Python, JavaScript, OpenLayers |
| dbox | 0.9a1 (2006-05-08) Inactive | dbox is really a collection of DHTML-based libraries for building highly interactive web-based mapping applications. The tools are meant to work directly with the MapServer web mapping system. They provide relatively autonomous functionality without restricting overall design. In fact, they were designed to be used with old fashioned elements like tables. | ? | MapServer | JavaScript, DHTML |
| Dracones | 1.1.3 (2010-12-06) Inactive | Dracones is a MapServer-based web mapping framework. Core components: A lightweight map widget, with a smooth navigation interface; Map layers with interactive behaviours, like mouse selection or tooltip (mouseover) information; Flexible query/extension mechanism; Handy other services like map image export, and history navigation | BSD | See MapServer, WMS | PHP, Python |
| Flexlayers | Unknown (2009) Inactive | Partial port of the OpenLayers mapping API from its native JavaScript to ActionScript 3 | LGPLv3 | WMS, WMS-C, and WFS | ActionScript 3 |
| Fusion | 2.2.0 (2011-06-01) Active | Fusion is a web-mapping application development framework for MapGuide OS and MapServer built primarily in JavaScript. It allows non-spatial web developers to build rich mapping applications quickly and easily. | MIT | See MapServer, MapGuide | PHP, JavaScript (Openlayers) |
| GeoExt | 1.1 (2011.12.22) Active | GeoExt is a JavaScript Toolkit for Rich Web Mapping Applications that combines the OpenLayers library (for mapping components) with the Ext JS JavaScript Framework. See for example GeoExplorer. | BSD-3-Clause | See OpenLayers | JavaScript, (OpenLayers, Ext JS) |
| geojsp | Unknown (Unknown) No public sourceforge | geojsp is an open source (GPL) component that integrates geographic elements in your business intelligence infrastructure (geo-BI): thematic maps; flow maps; indicators; graphics (bar charts, pie chart, etc.) | GPL | See OpenLayers | Java |
| GeoMondrian | 1.0 (Unknown) Last commit in 2012-04 | GeoMondrian is a spatially-enabled version of Pentaho Analysis Services Mondrian. It provides a consistent integration of spatial objects into the OLAP data cube structure, instead of fetching them from a separate spatial database, web service or GIS file. | EPL | See OpenLayers | Java |
| GeoMOOSE | 2.6.1 (2012-02-12) Active: OSGEO Incubation | GeoMOOSE is a Web Client JavaScript Framework for displaying distributed cartographic data. GeoMOOSE has a number of strengths including modularity, configurability, and delivers a number of core functionalities in its packages. GeoMOOSE is built MapServer, OpenLayers and the Dojo Toolkit. | MIT | MapServer, see OpenLayers | JavaScript, PHP |
| GeoPrisma | 1.6.3 (2012-11-27) No information | GeoPrisma is a Web mapping application featuring Access Control (Permissions) to geospatial data (Resources). A single Resource can be served by multiple different geodata servers (Services), such as WMS, TileCache, MapServer, FeatureServer, etc. | BSD-3-clause | see OpenLayers | PHP |
| GeoShield | 0.3.0 (2012-04) Immature | GeoShield is a project born to offer a centralised way to define security access-control to geo-services. It acts like a proxy, intercepting all the communications between clients and OGC compliant services | BSD-3-clause | See GeoServer, WMS, WFS, WPS, SOS | Java |
| GeoWebCache | 1.4.0 (2013-07-09) Active | GeoWebCache is a Java web application used to cache map tiles coming from a variety of sources such as OGC Web Map Service (WMS). It implements various service interfaces (such as WMS-C, WMTS, TMS, Google Maps KML, Virtual Earth) in order to accelerate and optimise map image delivery. It can also recombine tiles to work with regular WMS clients. | LGPL | WMS, WMS-C, TMS, WMTS | Java |
| GisClient | 3.5.3 (2012-06-2012) Inactive? | Web authoring tool configurator for MapServer that enables the user both to build Mapfiles and to provide OpenLayers maps. | GPLv3 | See Mapserver | AJAX, Javascript, PHP/MapScript |
| GPAAMP (Global Protected Areas Assessment and Monitoring Pilot) | 0.7 (2010-10) Inactive | Supporting viewing and download services, it functions primarily as a means for visualising information from disparate sources delivered through standards-based web services. It is based on the stack ExtJS, OpenLayers and GeoExt. | Apache Licence 2.0 | See OpenLayers | Javascript (GeoExt, OpenLayers, ExtJs) |
| Heron Mapping Client | 0.73 (2013-06-07) Active | GeoExt is a toolkit that combines OpenLayers with Ext JS to help build desktop style GIS apps on the web with JavaScript. The Heron MC leverages these frameworks by providing high-level components and a convention to quickly assemble applications merely through configuration (“Look ma no programming”). | GPLv3 | See OpenLayers | Javascript (GeoExt, OpenLayers, Ext JS) |
| HSLayers | 3.4.0 (2012-11-02) Inactive | HSLayers combines OpenLayers (for mapping part) and ExtJS (for the graphical user interface) for complete desktop-like WebGIS toolkit in JavaScript. It also has several server-side little script for support of the web interface. | GPL | See OpenLayers, MapServer, WCS and WFS | JavaScript, Python |
| i3geo | Unknown (Unknown) Active | i3geo provides a set of navigation tools, generation of analysis, sharing and generation of maps on demand. | GPLv2.0+ | See MapServer | PHP, JavaScript |
| ka-Map | 1.0 (2007-05-02) Inactive | ka-Map is an open source project that is aimed at providing a JavaScript API for developing highly interactive web-mapping interfaces using features available in modern web browsers. | MapServer licence | MapServer | PHP, JavaScript |
| leaflet | 0.6 (2013-06-26) Active | Leaflet is a modern, lightweight JavaScript library for making tile-based interactive maps for both desktop and mobile web browsers. | BSD-2-Clause | tiled layers, WMS | JavaScript |
| Mapbender | 3.0.0 (2013-05-29) Active: OSGEO project | Mapbender is the back office software and client framework for spatial data infrastructures. It provides a data model and web based interfaces for displaying, navigating and querying OGC compliant map services. It if based on the frameworks Symfony2, JQuery and OpenLayers | GPL, BSD | WMS, WFS | PHP, JavaScript |
| MapFish | 2.2 (2011-06-27) Inactive | MapFish is a flexible and complete framework for building rich web-mapping applications. It emphasises high productivity, and high-quality development. | BSD-3-Clause | WMS, WFS | Python, JavaScript |
| MapProxy | 1.5.0 (2012-12-05) Active | It caches, accelerates and transforms data from existing map services and serves any desktop or web GIS client. MapProxy is a tile cache solution, but also offers many new and innovative features like full support for WMS clients. | ASLv2.0 | WMS, TMS | Python |
| MapQuery | 0.1 (2011-07-28) Inactive | MapQuery is a jQuery plug-in that you can use to add mapping to your website. Whether you quickly want to add a simple map to a page, or build a feature rich web application, MapQuery is just the thing you need. | MIT | See OpenLayers | JavaScript |
| Modest Maps | Unknown (Unknown) Very low activity | Modest Maps is a small, extensible, and free library for designers and developers who want to use interactive maps in their own projects. It provides a core set of features in a tight, clean package with plenty of hooks for additional functionality | BSD | ? | JavaScript |
| OpenLayers | 2.13.1 (2013-07-09) Active 3.0.0alpha (2013-07-12) Active | OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. OpenLayers has been developed to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. | BSD-2-Clause | ArcGIS Server, GML, Google Maps, KML, MapGuide, MapServer, TMS, Bing Maps, WFS, WMS, etc. | JavaScript |
| OpenScales | 2.2 (2012-07-11) Active | OpenScales is an open source (LGPL) mapping framework written in ActionScript 3 and Flex that enables developers to build Rich Internet Mapping Applications. | Lesser GPL | GML, KML, OSM, TMS, WFS, WMS and others. | ActionScript, Flex, AIR |
| p.mapper | 4.3.1 (2013-04-04) Active | The p.mapper framework is intended to offer broad functionality and multiple configurations in order to facilitate the setup of a MapServer application based on PHP/MapScript. | GPLv2+ | MapServer | JavaScript, PHP |
| Polymaps | 2.5.1 (2011-06-14) Inactive | Polymaps is a free JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers. It provides speedy display of multi-zoom datasets over maps, and supports a variety of visual presentations for tiled vector data, in addition to the usual cartography from OpenStreetMap, CloudMade, Bing, and other providers of image-based web maps. | BSD 3-clause | Bing Maps, Cloudmade, OSM | JavaScript |
| ReadyMap Web SDK | ? | ReadyMap SDK is a free JavaScript library for embedding 3D maps in a web page. Build 3D maps using ReadyMap’s API, or turn your OpenLayers or Leaflet maps into 3D globes. | GPLv3 | See Openlayers | JavaScript (osgjs, jQuery) |
| TileCache | 2.11 (2010-10-15) Inactive | TileCache provides a Python-based WMS-C server, with pluggable caching mechanisms and rendering backends. In the simplest use case, TileCache requires only write access to a disk, the ability to run Python CGI scripts, and a WMS you want to be cached. | BSD-3-Clause | Mapnik, MapServer, WMS | Python |
| TileMill | 0.10.1 (2012-10-10) Active | TileMill is an application for making beautiful maps. Whether you’re a journalist, web designer, researcher, or seasoned cartographer, TileMill is the design studio you need to create compelling, interactive maps. | BSD | Mapnik | CSS-like map styling language |
| Thematic Mapping Engine | 2009 Inactive | TME enables you to visualise global statistics on Google Earth. The engine returns a KMZ file that you can open in Google Earth or download to your computer. | GPLv3 | KML | JavaScript, PHP |