.. _products:

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 MapServer Suite Products
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.. note::
    Since the MapServer 6.0 release, the MapServer project includes a suite of
    Open Source products, to provide a full set of online mapping tools to the
    community.  The MapServer Project Steering Committee maintains all of these
    products under the single umbrella of MapServer.
    
.. note::
    Developers looking to contribute to the Github projects should review
    MapServer's :ref:`Github guidelines <git>`
   
MapServer Core
--------------

The MapServer core source code, written in C, and consistently is one of the
fastest and most configurable online mapping engines in the world.

- :ref:`Documentation home <documentation>` 
- :ref:`Download <source>`
- `Github home <https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/>`__

MapCache
--------

As of MapServer 6.0, MapServer also includes powerful tile caching capabilities
through the MapCache project.

- :ref:`Documentation home <mapcache>` 
- :ref:`Download <source>`
- `Github home <https://github.com/mapserver/mapcache/>`__

TinyOWS
--------

As of MapServer 6.0, MapServer also includes the much needed ability to perform
transactional requests (online editing of features) through the WFS
specification, using the TinyOWS project.

- :ref:`Documentation home <tinyows>` 
- :ref:`Download <source>`
- `Github home <https://github.com/mapserver/tinyows/>`__

   
