Debian GIS Project
Summary
Map Server
Present geographic information via web map server

Debian packages which are dealing with geographical information to be presented for the web on so called map tile servers. These are pretty useful when trying to setup an OpenStreetMap tile server but not restricted to OpenStreetMap data only.

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For a better overview of the project's availability as a Debian package, each head row has a color code according to this scheme:

If you discover a project which looks like a good candidate for Debian GIS to you, or if you have prepared an unofficial Debian package, please do not hesitate to send a description of that project to the Debian GIS mailing list

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Debian GIS Map Server packages

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cgi-mapserver
CGI executable for MapServer
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This package contains the mapserv CGI program. It provides the MapServer template language, and can be used to implement Web Map Service applications.

MapServer is a CGI-based framework for Internet map services which supports Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. Scripting functionality in MapScript is provided by the suggested mapscript library packages.

libapache2-mod-mapcache
tile caching server - Apache module
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This is the MapCache module for the Apache web server implementing OGC web services. An alternative mapcache FastCGI program is available in mapcache-cgi.

MapCache is a server that implements tile caching to speed up access to WMS layers. The primary objectives are to be fast and easily deployable, while offering the essential features (and more!) expected from a tile caching solution.

mapcache-tools
tile caching server - tools
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This package provides command-line utilities for MapCache.

MapCache is a server that implements tile caching to speed up access to WMS layers. The primary objectives are to be fast and easily deployable, while offering the essential features (and more!) expected from a tile caching solution.

mapproxy
open source proxy for geospatial data
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MapProxy is an open source proxy for geospatial data. It caches, accelerates and transforms data from existing map services and serves any desktop or web GIS client.

MapProxy is a tile server (WMS-C, TMS, WMTS, KML SuperOverlays), and also a fully compliant WMS server supporting any WMS client (desktop and web).

This package provides the mapproxy utilities.

mapserver-bin
MapServer utilities
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This package provides command-line utilities for MapServer.

MapServer is a CGI-based framework for Internet map services which supports Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. Scripting functionality in MapScript is provided by the suggested mapscript library packages.

php-mapscript
php-cgi module for MapServer
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PHP MapScript provides MapServer functions for PHP scripts.

MapServer is a CGI-based framework for Internet map services which supports Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards.

This package provides the traditional MapScript for PHP.

python-mapscript
Python library for MapServer
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Python MapScript provides MapServer functions for Python scripts.

MapServer is a CGI-based framework for Internet map services which supports Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards.

python-owslib
??? missing short description for package python-owslib :-(
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pywps
Implementation of OGC's Web Processing Service
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PyWPS is implementation of Web Processing Service from Open Geospatial Consortium Inc.(R) with help of Python Programming Language and GIS GRASS as working tool in background.

This metapackage depends on the pywps Python module and WSGI example.

Please cite: Jáchym Čepický: PyWPS 2.0.0: The presence and the future (eprint) Proceedings Geoinformatics FCE CTU 2007 :61-64 (2007)
qgis-server
QGIS server providing various OGC services
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QGIS is a Geographic Information System (GIS) which manages, analyzes and display databases of geographic information.

This metapackage depends on the individual QGIS server components.

routino-www
Web frontend for routino
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Routino is an application for finding a route between two points using the dataset of topographical information collected by OpenStreetMap

This is the web frontend to the router.

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tilecache
Web map tile caching system
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TileCache is an implementation of a WMS-C compliant server made available by MetaCarta. TileCache provides a Python-based WMS/TMS 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. With these resources, you can create your own local disk-based cache of any WMS server, and use the result in any WMS-C supporting client, like OpenLayers, or any TMS supporting client, like OpenLayers and worldKit.

tilestache
map tiles caching system
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TileStache is a Python-based server application that can serve up map tiles based on rendered geographic data.

TileStache features:

  • Renders Mapnik maps.
  • Serves pre-rendered tiles out of MBTiles tilesets.
  • Generates vector tiles from OGR datasources in GeoJSON usable in Polymaps.
  • Caches to disk, Memcache, Amazon S3, MBTiles, and elsewhere.
  • Serves tiles in Google-style spherical mercator projection and WGS84 lat/lon projection.
  • Runs from CGI, mod_python, or Gunicorn WSGI.
  • Uses metatiles.
twms
tiny web map service
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twms is a WMS/TMS server for exporting your map tiles to WMS-enabled applications.

twms can export a set of raster tiles as a WMS service so GIS applications that support WMS protocol can access this tile set. Also, twms can act as a proxy and perform WMS requests to external services and serve the tile cache to WMS and TMS clients.

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

mapcache-cgi
tile caching server - CGI binary
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This package contains the mapcache FastCGI program, as alternative to the Apache module available in libapache2-mod-mapcache.

MapCache is a server that implements tile caching to speed up access to WMS layers. The primary objectives are to be fast and easily deployable, while offering the essential features (and more!) expected from a tile caching solution.

php-geos
GEOS bindings for PHP
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GEOS provides a spatial object model and fundamental geometric functions. It implements the geometry model defined in the OpenGIS Consortium Simple Features Specification for SQL.

This package contains the PHP bindings for GEOS.

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pycsw
OGC compliant metadata (Catalogue Service for the Web) server
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pycsw is an OGC CSW server implementation written in Python. pycsw fully implements the OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification (Catalogue Service for the Web). Initial development started in 2010 (more formally announced in 2011). The project is certified OGC Compliant, and is an OGC Reference Implementation. Since 2015, pycsw is an official OSGeo Project. pycsw allows for the publishing and discovery of geospatial metadata via numerous APIs (CSW 2/CSW 3, OpenSearch, OAI-PMH, SRU). Existing repositories of geospatial metadata can also be exposed, providing a standards-based metadata and catalogue component of spatial data infrastructures. pycsw is Open Source, released under an MIT license, and runs on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X).

This package contains the pycsw-admin utility and configuration files.

tinyows
lightweight and fast WFS-T server
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TinyOWS is a lightweight and fast implementation of the OGC WFS-T specification. Web Feature Service (WFS) allows querying and retrieval of features. The transactional profile (WFS-T) allows inserting, updating or deleting such features.

From a technical point of view WFS-T is a Web Service API in front of a spatial database. TinyOWS is deeply tied to PostgreSQL/PostGIS because of this.

TinyOWS implements strictly OGC standards and pass successfully all WFS OGC CITE tests (and even beta ones).

TinyOWS is part of MapServer Suite, but provided as a distinct module (i.e you could use it in conjunction with MapServer and MapCache, or as a standalone app). But both MapServer and TinyOWS could use the same configuration file, if you want to (or native TinyOWS XML config file).

Packaging has started and developers might try the packaging code in VCS

node-kosmtik - wnpp
Make maps with OpenStreetMap and Mapnik
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Kosmtik is a very light but extendable mapping framework to create Mapnik ready maps with OpenStreetMap data (and more).

Carto based projects are supported (with .mml or .yml config).

Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.

tilemill
map design studio
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Tilemill is a map design studio for creating custom interactive maps. Data can be imported, layered and styled, and legends added to the map. The map can be exported to several formats and easily embedded into a website.

Compatible datasources include ESRI Shapefile, KML, GeoJSON, GeoTIFF, PostGIS, CSV, and SQLite. For styling the maps, TileMill uses a language called CartoCSS. Colors, sizes, and shapes can all be manipulated by applying their relative CartoCS parameters. It is possible to export pannable, zoomable maps, and static maps in PNG, PDF, and SVG format. For advanced users, it is possible to export in Mapnik XML format, and exports can be scripted from the command line.

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