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Generating map tiles for the web
- There are only a few map tiling service standards defined including WMS, TMS, WMTS, 3D Tiles, and API Tiles.
- Deegree3 is an open source implementation of WMS, WMTS, WFS, CSW, and WPS services written in Java.
- GeoServer is an open source reference server implementation of OGC WFS, WMS, WMTS, TMS, XYZ, WCS, WPS services, and SLD specification.
- GeoNode is a web-based application and platform for developing geospatial information systems and deploying spatial data infrastructures. It implements WMS, WCS, WFS, CSW, and WMTS standards.
- MapServer is a C/C++ geographic data rendering engine that supports OGC WMS web mapping and OGC WFS services.
- Oskari is a web map framework supporting OGC API standards, implemented in Java servlets and JavaScript using React framework for the front-end.
- Majority of service implementations support SLD styling specification, with MapServer using its own styling language via mapfiles, and Oskari which does not support styling of WMS tiles.
- The code bases of these software implementations span up to a few hundred thousand lines with GeoServer having a code base of around 1 million lines of code.
- These software implementations are used for spatial data infrastructures and for the geospatial web.
- GeoNode was created in 2010 and the latest version is a few weeks old. The latest versions of GeoServer, MapServer and Deegree3 are few days old. While, the latest standard specification, API Tiles, was released in 2022.
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