GeowebInfo » mapfish http://geowebinfo.com thoughts on all things geo Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:11:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 MapFish & OpenLayers Technical Overview http://geowebinfo.com/2009/05/22/mapfish-openlayers-technical-overview/ http://geowebinfo.com/2009/05/22/mapfish-openlayers-technical-overview/#comments Sat, 23 May 2009 02:57:27 +0000 Sriharsha Vankadara http://geowebinfo.com/?p=165 OpenLayers has its fair share of reputation as being one of the best and widely implemented (White House’s Delivering on Change using OpenLayers) open source JavaScript library for displaying dynamic map data in a webpage. Although originally developed by MetaCarta, in November 2007 it became a project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Written in object-oriented JavaScript, OpenLayers supports a variety of data sources with methods for accessing geographic data such as Web Mapping Service (WMS) and Web Feature Service (WFS) protocols of the OpenGIS Consortium.

MapFish on the other hand is an open source application framework with Server and Client side components for building online mapping applications. The Mapfish Client is built upon OpenLayers for the mapping part, ExtJS and GeoExt for the GUI part. MapFish Server deals with server side functions and can be used with MapServer, GeoServer or MapGuide.

Geoweb Guru outlines the technical aspects of these open source mapping utilities with examples at Technical Overview: MapFish and Technical Overview: OpenLayers

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