The basic MapServer CGI application provides a significant number of "out-of-the-box" features. Here's a sampling: vector formats supported: ESRI shapefiles, PostGIS, ESRI ArcSDE and many others via OGR raster formats supported: TIFF/GeoTIFF, EPPL7 and many others via GDAL quadtree spatial indexing for shapefiles fully customizable, template driven output feature selection by item/value, point, area or another feature TrueType font support support for tiled raster and vector data map element automation (scalebar, reference map, and legend) scale dependent feature drawing and application execution thematic map building using logical or regular expression based classes feature labeling including label collision mediation on-the-fly configuration via URLs on-the-fly projection
The basic MapServer CGI application provides a significant number of "out-of-the-box" features. Here's a sampling:
