Software
Open source software that provide web map services capability include GeoServer, MapServer, Geozilla, World Wind Server and MapGuide Open Source. Proprietary server software that allow providing web map services include ObjectFX Web Mapping Tools, ArcGIS Server, ArcIMS, VT MAK's VR-TheWorld, Envinsa from Pitney Bowes Business Insights, GeoWebPublisher from Bentley Systems, GeognoSIS from Cadcorp, GeoMedia, Oracle MapViewer, LizardTech's Express Server, and SIAS (Smallworld Internet Application Server) from GE Energy, Autodesk's Infrastructure Map Server, and ERDAS, Inc's APOLLO Suite of products.
WMS is a widely supported format for maps and GIS data accessed via the Internet and loaded into client side GIS software. Major commercial GIS and mapping software that support WMS include GeoBase (Telogis GIS software), MATLAB and Mapping Toolbox, Netwin, Autodesk's Map 3D and Civil 3D products, Bentley Systems's GIS products, ESRI's ArcGIS products, the Maptitude Mapping Software, Cadcorp SIS product suite, MapInfo Professional, GeoMedia, Global Mapper, Manifold System, PYXIS WorldView and Visual Crossing. Open source software that supports WMS include Quantum GIS, uDig, OpenJUMP, MapGuide Open Source, NASA World Wind, GRASS GIS, and gvSIG. OpenLayers, GE Energy's SIAS, an Ajax library, supports WMS for integrating WMS maps into web pages, as does Mapbender.
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