MapServer/MapServer
Source code of the MapServer project. Please submit pull requests to the 'main' branch. observed · 2026-09-03
Health v2 · maintenance only
97/100
- Activity 100
- Release rhythm 92
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 26
- age_days: 5265
- days_rel: 54
- days_push: 0
- n_releases_24m: 12
Adoption not part of the score
1213 stars · 419 forks observed · 2026-09-03
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
MapServer is an open-source geographic data rendering engine written in C for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web. It runs as a CGI program supporting OGC standards like WMS, WFS, WCS, and OGC API, with scripting bindings via MapScript.
Use cases
- serve web map services (WMS/WFS/WCS) from my spatial data
- render interactive maps on the web from PostGIS or shapefiles
- publish OGC API Features endpoints
- build a web GIS application without writing much code
- generate map images, legends, and scalebars on demand
- serve raster and vector geodata over HTTP
When to choose
- you need standards-compliant OGC web map/feature services
- you want a mature, battle-tested C-based map engine with broad format support via GDAL
- you need high-performance server-side map rendering with advanced cartography
When to avoid
- you want a full desktop GIS application
- you need a simple tile cache only (consider MapCache)
- you prefer a modern JS-based mapping stack like MapLibre with vector tiles
Facets
service · maturity stable
http-server image-processing geospatial web-development windows cross-platform c gis wms wfs ogc map-rendering cgi mapscript osgeo gdal postgis maps geospatial linux macos web-server
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer · fetched 2026-09-03 · 21d657b38da9
- homepage: https://mapserver.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9f20251dac10
- site_page: https://mapserver.org/about.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 19353bccf4da
- site_page: https://mapserver.org/faq.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 557c55fddbd6
- site_page: https://mapserver.org/development/changelog/changelog-8-6.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5f89329daac8
- site_page: https://mapserver.org/development/changelog/mapcache/changelog-1-16.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · d386697daf22
- site_page: https://mapserver.org/development/changelog/changelog-8-4.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1a18a2a00de5
- site_page: https://mapserver.org/development/changelog/changelog-8-2.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · b67e7b9580cd
- site_page: https://mapserver.org/development/changelog/mapcache/changelog-1-14.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9c5d82145591
- site_page: https://mapserver.org/development/changelog/tinyows/changelog-1-2.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · a93849c131a2
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| MapServer/MapServer | main | 97 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="MapServer/MapServer")
Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem