Mapbender 5.0 - next level solution to create your powerful Geoportal
2026-07-01 , A11

Mapbender 5.0 is close to come out and comes with many great new features that will be highlighted in this talk. But not only the new features are shown. You will discover what Mapbender offers and why it could be your Geoportal solution.

Mapbender is a great open source solutions for creating intuitive and high-performance WebGIS applications. Mapbender offers a set of widgets that you can combine.

This software solution enables users to quickly and easily publish applications online without having to write a single line of code.

Mapbender improved a lot. With the new version we have a refactored design and many new or improved features. You can integrated WMS Services, WMTS Services, OGC API Features Collections or Vector Tiles Services and configure them individually.

You can manage access rights for applications.

You can setup applications with search functionality and digitize functionality.

Mapbender 5.0 offers new features
- Batch print functionality
- Support for OGC API Features
- Support for styles
- interactive Help
- and more


Indicate what is (are) the open source project(s) essential in your talk:

Mapbender

Give indication of resources (video, web pages, papers, etc.) to read in advance, that will help get up to speed on advanced topics.:

http://mapbender.org
https://doc.mapbender.org/en/quickstart.html
https://mapbender.org/galerie/

Assign a number between 1 and 4 indicating the level of technical complexity of your contribution.: 1: no technical/ thematic skill required Select at least one general theme that best defines your proposal: Software status, new project development Under which license do you make your contribution available? The conference contribution comprises the abstract, the text contribution for the conference proceedings, the presentation materials as well as the video recording and live transmission of the presentation: CC BY-SA

Astrid Emde is a Geospatial Expert and works in Bonn at WhereGroup (https://wheregroup.com) since many years. She works as Senior GIS Consultant on WebGIS solutions with FOSSGIS. She is trainer at the FOSS Academy (https://foss-academy.com).
Astrid Emde is an active member of OSGeo and a Charter Member since 2010. From 2017-2021 she was in the OSGeo Board of Directors and is OSGeo Secretary. She recieved the Sol Katz Award in 2018 at FOSS4G 2018 in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania).