Mapbender is a graduated OSGeo project. It is a web based geoportal framework to publish, register, view, navigate, monitor and grant secure access to spatial data infrastructure services.
Mapbender is the tip of the iceberg, a meta layer of software providing access to SDI components adhering to international standards. Mapbender allows to create full-fledged web mapping interfaces using the power of jQuery. Mapbender applications offer dynamic map service binding, security proxying, metadata management, digitizing with auto snapping and a many more high-end operations.
Mapbender management applications are straight forward and easy to use providing highly focused functionality for the operation of large scale distributed SDI components. It is the tool of choice for SDI administrators who need to maintain, categorize and monitor map and feature services. Mapbender grants access to individuals, groups and manages machine to machine access. Adherence to standardized services, such as OGC WMS and transactional WFS allows to take advantage of interoperable services from a multitude of server platforms.
Mapbender gives a whole new perspective to SDI management using nothing but a standard web browser.
To run Mapbender from the OSGeo Live DVD, click on the Mapbender link on the desktop or open a browser and navigate to http://localhost/mapbender/.
The initial Mapbender login is user root and password root.