MapProxy
MapProxy is an open source proxy for geospatial data. It caches, accelerates and transforms data from existing map services and serves any desktop or web GIS client.
News
- 2019-08-30: New MapProxy 1.12.0 release
- 2017-11-20: New MapProxy 1.11.0 release
- 2017-05-18: New MapProxy 1.10.0 release
- 2016-07-22: New MapProxy 1.9.0 release
- 2015-05-18: New MapProxy 1.8.0 release
Features of MapProxy
Tile cache
MapProxy is a tile server (WMS-C, TMS, WMTS, KML SuperOverlays). It reads data from:
- WMS sources (1.0.0–1.3.0)
- WMTS/TMS sources
- Mapserver and Mapnik configurations
- any TileCache, Google Maps or Bing compatible source
- ArcGIS REST servers and compact cache files
Other features:
- cache tiles in the filesystem, MBTiles/SQLite, ArcGIS Compact Cache, S3, Redis, Riak, or CouchDB
- reproject WMS and tile sources to other SRS
- stores identical tiles just once (e.g. ocean tiles)
- embed watermark in tiles
- merge multiple sources
- limit sources to polygon areas
- manipulate image bands to create grayscale- or false-color images
- many more
WMS
MapProxy is also a full compliant WMS server and supports any WMS client (desktop and web). It supports WMS responses from cached data:
- merges tiles and scales or reprojects images
- accelerates existing WMS 10 to 100 times
and cascaded WMS services:
- multi-threaded requests
- merges multiple sources
- adds transparency to opaque layers
- reprojects on-the-fly
It also supports combinations of cached and cascaded layers.
Other features:
- respond to `GetLegendGraphic` requests
- cascade ``GetFeatureInfo`` requests with optional XSL transformations
- limit sources to polygon areas
- convert WMS versions and image formats
- support for non-image raster data like DEMs
Security
MapProxy comes with a flexible security API that allows you to add fine-grained control over services and layers. You can even restrict access of single layers to polygon extents.
Seeding
You can pre-generate the tile cache for better performance – this is called seeding. Some unique features:
- fine-grained control over the seed area with Shapefiles, GeoJSON, PostGIS or WKT geometries
- multi-threaded requests, meta-tile splitting and image encoding
- optimized seeding strategy (to work _with_ your database cache)
Other features
You can use MapProxy to upgrade your SDI without touching your existing servers:
- offer projections that your sources do not support
- offer protocol versions and image formats that your sources do not support
- combine multiple layers and servers
- hide WMS servers
- add watermarks and attribution lines to the images
- etc.
MapProxy is standard compliant and works with the following open specifications:
- OGC WMS 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.3.0
- OGC WMTS 1.0.0 (KVP and RESTful)
- OSGeo TMS 1.0.0
- OGC KML 2.2 SuperOverlays
Getting started
Curious? With the following four lines you can install MapProxy and all dependencies, create a new configuration and start MapProxy in development mode.
After that you can visit
sudo aptitude install python-imaging python-yaml libproj0
sudo pip install mapproxy
mapproxy-util create -t base-config ./
mapproxy-util serve-develop ./mapproxy.yaml