:Author: OSGeo-Live
:Author: Hamish Bowman
:Author: Eric Lemoine
:Reviewer: Cameron Shorter, LISAsoft
:Version: osgeo-live5.5
:License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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  :target: http://www.mapfish.org

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  :alt: OSGeo Project
  :align: right
  :target: http://www.osgeo.org


MapFish
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Web Mapping Framework
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MapFish is a flexible and complete framework for building rich web-mapping
applications. It emphasizes high productivity, and high-quality development. 

MapFish is based on the `Pylons <http://pylonshq.com>`_ Python web framework.
MapFish extends Pylons with geospatial-specific functionality. For example
MapFish provides specific tools for creating web services that allows querying
and editing geographic objects.

MapFish also provides a complete RIA-oriented JavaScript toolbox, a JavaScript
testing environment, and tools for compressing JavaScript code. The JavaScript
toolbox is composed of the `ExtJS <http://extjs.com>`_, :doc:`OpenLayers <openlayers_overview>` , `GeoExt <http://www.geoext.org>`_ JavaScript
toolkits.

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  :alt: screenshot
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Implemented Standards
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MapFish is compliant with the `Open Geospatial Consortium
<http://www.opengeospatial.org/>`_ standards.  This is achieved through
OpenLayers or GeoExt supporting several OGC norms, like WMS, WFS, WMC, KML, GML
etc.

Details
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**Website:** http://www.mapfish.org

**Licence:** BSD License

**Software Version:** 2.2

**Supported Platforms:** Windows, Linux, Mac

**Support:** http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish#Community


Quickstart
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* :doc:`Quickstart documentation <../quickstart/mapfish_quickstart>`