Mapbender is the back office software and client framework for spatial data infrastructures. The software is implemented in PHP, JavaScript and XML and dual licensed under GNU GPL and Simplified BSD license. It provides a data model and web based interfaces for displaying, navigating and querying OGC compliant map services.

The Mapbender framework furthermore provides authentication and authorization services, OWS Proxy functionality, management interfaces for user, group and service administration.

Mapbender is an official Open Source Geospatial Foundation project and all about managing maps! Mapbender can be used for a variety of different web mapping applications as can be seen in the Mapbender Gallery use cases and examples. Mapbender helps to manage, organize, protect and monitor map services, users and applications. The maps themselves come from many different Map Services and can be located anywhere in the world.

License：GPL-3.0+ ／ BSD-2-Clause