QGIS mapserver

20.08.2010 15:17 ·  GIS  ·  qgis

Marco Hugentobler wants to merge his project, QGIS mapserver, into the QGIS source code.

QGIS mapserver is an open source WMS server that runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X (other Unix-like systems should also be supported, but have not been tested). The server is a FastCGI application written in C++. It uses QGIS libraries for rendering and GIS operations.

Among the main features:

• support for GetCapabilities, GetMap, GetStyle, GetFeatureInfo requests and customisable styles based on the Styled Layer Descriptor specification (supported standards include WMS 1.3.0, WMS 1.1.1 and SLD 1.0.0).
• SOAP over HTTP POST. Compatibility with ORCHESTRA and SANY Service Oriented Architecture
• SLD extensions (diagrams and custom symbols in SVG format)