MapFish is an open source web mapping

Web mapping

Web mapping is the process of designing, implementing, generating and delivering maps on the World Wide Web and its product. While web mapping primarily deals with technological issues, web cartography additionally studies theoretic aspects: the use of web maps, the evaluation and optimization of...

 development framework that extends the Pylons development framework and provides support for spatial data. In order to create rich UIs

Rich user interaction

In computing, a user interface is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. A rich user interaction is an interface model of a rich client. It is an interaction model that can support several input methods and that responds intuitively and in a timely fashion...

, MapFish aggregates the power of OpenLayers

OpenLayers

OpenLayers is an open source JavaScript library for displaying map data in web browsers. It provides an API for building rich web-based geographic applications similar to Google Maps and Bing Maps...

, ExtJS and GeoExt.

MapFish allows the developer to create advanced web mapping applications with print, search and edit capabilities. MapFish has started its incubation as an OSGeo

Open Source Geospatial Foundation

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation , is a non-profit non-governmental organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data. The foundation was formed in February 2006 to provide financial, organizational and legal support to...

project.

External links

• MapFish homepage
• Gallery