Chameleon
Chameleon is a distributed, highly configurable, environment for developing
Web Mapping applications. It is built on MapServer as the core mapping engine
and works with all MapServer supported data formats through a regular MAP file.
It also works well with
OpenGIS Consortium
standards for Web Mapping Services (WMS) and WMT Viewer Contexts through
MapServer's support for these standards.
Chameleon incorporates the ability to quickly set up new applications from
a common pool of widgets that can be placed in an HTML template file. These
widgets provide a fixed piece of functionality, but the representation of the
widget is usually highly configurable.
Chameleon is also extendable. Developers can create their own custom
widgets and then use them in mapping applications.
Chameleon is OpenSource, this means
that you can use it freely for your own applications, and that you also have
access to the source code. Just like with any OpenSource project, we hope that
users of Chameleon will contribute their improvements and report any problems
or suggestions.
Chameleon technology was developed as the Configurable Web Mapping Client
Component (CWC2) for Canada's GeoConnections Access Program. It is currently
being used by the GeoConnections Discovery Portal and will be used by a
number of CGDI based applications in the future.
Latest Version
Chameleon version 2.6 rc1 is now available.
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Chameleon stable version 2.4.1 is still available.
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