Software
The Axis suite.
Axis is a set of desktop and server applications for authoring geospatial data and publishing it over standard protocols. Map Publisher Desktop is the interface to all of it; the three servers do the work it hands off.
Axis Map Publisher Pro
- Desktop application Map Publisher Desktop Authors and publishes geospatial data from the desktop. It is also the primary interface to the rest of the suite — the servers are driven from its docking panes, toolbars and dialogs rather than from consoles of their own.
- Server application Personal Map Server Publishes authored maps over WMS, WMTS, KML and XYZ tile protocols from a lightweight HTTP server. Intended for the intranet, and shipped as an optional feature of the Map Publisher Desktop installation.
- Server application Spatial Library Server Indexes geospatial files across a network into catalogs of metadata, so footprints and imagery can be found and selected on the map instead of hunted for on disk.
- Server application Parallel Processing Server Distributes publishing work across many machines as atomic tasks — one tile written, one file's metadata read — so preparation runs at the speed of the hardware available rather than one computer.
Documentation is published in full for every application, and each manual is downloadable as a PDF where one exists.