GIServer is a Web Map Server (WMS) for Windows that uses the freeware inovaGIS automation objects server in combination with the Microsoft HTTP Server (Microsoft Internet Information Server) or Apache Server for Windows, to access geographic information. The data can be located in various servers or locally, and the user can choose from a list of online servers where the data should be processed.

GIServer version 1.0 includes several new developments. The most important ones are the use of specific parameters and their integration with Styles (check out Making use of Styles), dynamic query methods for vectorial data (check out vectorial query parameters) and the automatic geographic projection of requests (check out the EPSG available). All this is enhanced with the use of a geographic cache system.

The GIServer does NOT works in the Personal Web Server (Windows95/98) because this light weight HTTP server do not support multiple concurrent requests. All the test realized failed but if anyone knows a way to change the settings of concurrent requests in this HTTP server please let me know.

NOTE : The GIServer was fully tested in the following Windows Systems and service packs:

• Windows NT 4.0 - IIS 4.0 - Service Pack 6
• Windows 2000 - IIS 5.0 - Service Pack 2
• Windows XP Professional - IIS 5.1
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• Changing the GETMap request (go)
• Using Mouse Events (go)
• Requesting Web Map Server Layers (go)

• epsg.htm - lists the valid EPSG codes for automatic geographic transformations in the GIServer
  
  
• format.htm - explains the WMS Format parameter and LAYERS specific FORMAT request and its implication on cascading requests.
  
  
• usestyles.htm - This page describes how to use styles in order to request GIServer parameters in a fashion compliant with WebMapServer spec .
  
  
• vecparam.htm - lists all the vectorial especific parameters in GIServer.
  
  
• wmsparam.htm - lists all the Web Map Server specification parameters from OpenGIS.org.