EasyWMS Open Source WebGIS Projects

1. gvSIG Mini is a free viewer of many On/Offline Maps:
- OpenStreetMap
- Yahoo
- Microsoft Bing
- Google Maps
- PNOA (ES)
- Ordnance Survey (UK)
- Yandex (RU)
- etc

It also has interesting features, such as:
- WMS & WMS-C Client
- Route calculation
- Address/POI search
- Share location (twitter, SMS, e-mail, facebook, ...)
- GPS, cell & WiFi location
- WVGA
- Navigation mode
- Compass support
- Street View integration
- Layer configuration downloader
- QuickZoom: SlideBar or DoubleTap
- Android 2.1 support (now from 1.5 up to 2.1)

The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) includes both a transformation language and a formatting language. Each of these, naturally enough, is an XML application. The transformation language provides elements that define rules for how one XML document is transformed into another XML document.
The transformed XML document may use the markup and DTD of the original document, or it may use a completely different set of elements. In particular, it may use the elements defined by the second part of XSL, the formatting objects.

WMS Tiling Client Recommendation from OSGEO details extensions to and constraints on the OGC WMS 1.1.1 specification for the
purpose of (a) improving the quality and scalability of tiled maps, particularly
on the Web, and (b) making it possible to cache the results of tiled WMS
requests.

10, WMS Browser
Developed by Tom Vijlbrief, you can download this application from http://www.v7f.eu/
It is one OGC WMS map browser client with bluetooth and internal GPS support, if you have no GPS, it is a nice WMS client. You could give the WMS GetMap request url and browse the WMS map.

3, MapBrowser & MobileMap

I assumed that you have some basical Web Map Server knowledge to read this article, some terms I have not explained here to save time.

One year ago I developed MoWMSi as my Master Thesis and I began my programming way thanks to the mobile map viewer client for Web Map Server. Programers have always such feeling that you will find your old code very simple and crude after some period of time, yes, I found my old client has many problems in structure and a bad user capability to interact with WMS--it can not load the map from WMS dynamically!

Today I happened to find one interesting site for WMS server: http://wms-sites.com/
This site is one collection of useful Web Mapping Service sites, which aimimg to be a visual catalog of public Web Mapping Service (WMS) resources online.

The webmaster has collected many WMS servers, and you can view the WMS Layers.
To browse the WMS sites in the catalog, enter some keywords in search box above, or see site listings in the catalog.  By following links to individual layers, you can see those mapped layers.  Sample searches: weather, ortho-photos, boundaries, topography, transportation.

Putting a map in your web page is easy with OpenLayers. 8 lines of html codes, you will have a map viewer in your blog, forum or web site.

<iframe
      src="http://openlayers.org/viewer/"
      width="300" height="200"
      scrolling="no"
      marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
      frameborder="0">
</iframe>

Just like this, Hi, this is NOT a static image, it is a map viewer, try to click the explore tools to move and zoom in,out. Cool?

 
Kvwmap is one OpenSource WebGIS application. The framework is originally developed by Rostock University and then as information system. Meanwhile kvwmap is maintained by Steinbeis-Transferzentrum , which is science transfer association at the Universität Rostock.

After introduced the QuickWMS in my last blog, if you think it is too light to meet your demand, please try Mapbuilder.
MapBuilder is a powerful, standards compliant geographic mapping client which runs in a web browser. Same as QuickWMS, it use Ajax's magic to interact with map server. With so many features and functions, it has the same capabilities as the desktop PC Webmap client.

• Browser based mapping client
• Standards compliant, supports the Open Geospatial consortium(OGC) standards
• Renders maps from Web Map Services (WMS), Web Feature Services (WFS), GeoRSS, Google Maps
• Supports editing map features to Transactional Web Feature Services (WFS-T)
• Allows users to build their own maps, then save and share them, using Web Map Context (WMC) and Open Web Services Context

• Easy to use

• Fast and interactive - built using  AJAX
• Works with most modern browsers (Firefox 1.0+, Internet Explorer 6.0+, Mozilla 1.3+, Navigator 6+)
• Customisable and easy to extend
• Open source under the LGPL licence

• No plugins required
• ... Feature Matrix

Pay attention to the red font, it support the WFS-T, that means you can edit the attribute of the geometries in the client and update the data in the remote database. Amazing!