Operating System:
Any
 

 

 
Underlying Technology:
GeoTools
http://geotools.org
Java GeoSpatial Toolkit
 

 

 
Supported Standards:
Web Map Service (WMS)
http://www.opengeospatial.org/docs/01-068r2.pdf
A standard for requesting images of maps
 
Web Feature Service (WFS)
https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifa...
Standard for requesting geographic data.
 
Styled Layer Description (SLD)
http://www.opengeospatial.org/docs/02-070.pdf
Standard rules in XML on how to 'style' spatial data in to a map
 
KML
http://www.keyhole.com/kml/kml_doc.html
Google Earth's 'open' format for points
 
SVG
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
An open vector graphic format developed by WC3
 

 

 
Distribution Media:
The Internet
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/Latest
The internet is a useful distribution device
 

 

Localization

 
Supported Locales:
Spanish
 
French
 
Japanese