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GNU Units vs Mapserver

A side-by-side look at GNU Units and Mapserver. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

GNU Units

GNU Units

Science & Education

GNU Units is a command line utility program that converts between different systems of units. It can handle metric, US customary, and imperial units for length, mass, volume, and more. The program is useful for scientific, engineering, and math computations that require unit conversions.

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Mapserver

Mapserver

Development

Mapserver is an open source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web. It enables users to quickly build web mapping applications that leverage data from PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GeoJSON, and other sources.

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