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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Hi everyone,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-45.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> Well I've been working on Mapserver for a couple of weeks now. Now I was supposed to checkout Geoserver too.. I was wondering if anyone who has worked on both of </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-45.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">them could help me figure out with a point or two as of how mapserver is superior to Geoserver... I've got a few points gathered.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-45.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">-=- Plz fill me in with any thing that comes to your mind. I really wanna the differences , be it the basic things, simplicity or complexity or whatever..............</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-45.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Thanks,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-45.0pt"><span style="font-family: 'Bauhaus 93'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "><br>
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:-45.0pt"><span style="font-family: 'Bauhaus 93'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Mapserver && Geoserver</span></span></p>
<pre><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1.</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">MapServer is generally better when dealing with WMS, while GeoServer deals better with WFS.</span></span></span></pre>
<pre style="margin-right:-45.0pt;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 7.0in 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. A big difference is that GeoServer supports WFS-T, that it Transactional WFS (editing of feature services on the client side), while MapServer don’t.</span></pre>
<pre style="margin-right:-45.0pt;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 7.0in 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. Mapserver works with CGI, GeoSever with J2EE. That may entail some advantage to GeoServer, since some companies don’t want to work with CGI.</span></pre>
<pre style="margin-right:-45.0pt;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 7.0in 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. MapServer is a more mature project (1996), while GeoServer is a bit more recent (2003).</span></pre>
<pre style="margin-right:-45.0pt;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 7.0in 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. GeoServer has a web tool administration that eases configuration.</span></pre>
<pre style="margin-right:-45.0pt;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 7.0in 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. MapServer has without any doubt a very powerful cartography system, providing data under dynamic vectors with high quality</span></pre>
<pre style="margin-right:-45.0pt;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 7.0in 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. None of them is better or worse. The development objectives are different.</span></pre>
<pre style="margin-right:-45.0pt;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 7.0in 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">8.</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> PHP Mapscript for Mapserver, which provides a powerful scripting interface for PHP programmers. For Java programmers, Geoserver might be a better choice</span></span></span></pre>
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