Maps for MapServer Global Edition
DMSG’s Maps for MapServer Global Edition (M4MS Global) enables out of the box mapping anywhere in the world. Three distinctive maps are included to suit a wide variety of needs. You can choose from a traditional political and highway map in the style of our US Streets maps, a global terrain map with bathymetry, or a hybrid map combining both.
To produce a comprehensive, flexible product a variety of data sources were selected, then meticulously processed and optimized for use in MapServer and OpenLayers.
VMap Level 0 data are the basis for most of the non-terrain features in M4MS Global including political entities, highways, water features and urban areas and more. In creating this package DMSG selected only the most relevant and useful data layers, removed unnecessary attributes, created spatial indexing and implemented other optimization procedures to ensure the most compact, high performance data set.
The United States National Geophysical Data Center’s ETOPO2 bathymetry data and Geological Survey’s GTOPO30 digital elevation data set have been integrated to produce a global terrain map.
Major cities were created using location data from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency’s GEOnet and the National Atlas of the United States data sets.
Benefits
- Save time and effort by eliminating the need for data download, conversion, indexing and mapfile authoring.
- Cost effective when compared to other commercial data products
- Optimized for map quality and rendering speed
- Suitable for mapping at scales from state or province level to worldwide
- Significantly more compact than the raw source data files
What’s in the Package?
M4MS Global includes all the necessary components to implement maps in a MapServer or OpenLayers application. The package includes:
- Optimized data based on a number of sources
- Spatial index files for improved map rendering by MapServer
- Three MapServer map files compatible with the latest MapServer release
- All supporting files for the map file including markers, symbols and fonts
- Complete documentation for all data layers
- A basic map viewer to view the maps
Data Specifications
- M4MS Global contains data for all areas and all countries of the world.
- Data layers included: bathymetry, elevation, world landmass layers with labels, ocean and sea labels, urban areas, inland water, rivers, streams and canals, borders, major roadways, railroads, major cities, national capitals.
- All data classes not needed for display purposes have been removed to improve performance.
- Map data are distributed in shapefile format, indexed for optimal use with MapServer
- The map data are offered in the same projection as the source data: unprojected geographic, WGS 84
Cartography
M4MS Global has been carefully designed to provide online maps that are attractive and legible for views ranging from city, state, country or the entire world. The product incorporates an innovative scale-based system with 9 ranges, each of which has unique cartographic qualities to maximize both aesthetics and utility. Each scale range has been designed to produce excellent maps anywhere within the range, and each has a recommended optimal scale for use in scale-constrained applications.
All aspects of the cartography have been painstakingly considered, and M4MS Global represents the culmination of years of cartographic expertise at DMSG. Casement style highways add a contemporary look, crisp, distinctive colors please the eye, and well-placed labeling creates an attractive and informative map.
Buy Online
| Description | Price USD | |
| Maps For MapServer Global Edition | $2950 |
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Contact
For more information please contact us at:
email: sales@dmsolutions.ca
phone: 613.565.5056