Carmenta Server

Secure and fast map server technology.
Carmenta’s map solutions and products have long been used in systems with major demands on performance, flexibility and scalability. Carmenta Server provides organizations with access to well-tested server technology for the handling of digital maps and other geographic information. The product is often being used to simplify distribution and the exchange of geographic data with the help of standardized and open web server interfaces.

Carmenta Server is our technology for building large scale network based geospatial solutions. It is also scalable to support anything from small GIS teams using a single machine installation to enterprise-wide solutions running on multiple servers.

Carmenta Server distributes web map services over intranets and the internet to support different client applications such as web maps, mobile and desktop applications.

Carmenta is a Technical Committee member of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC). We are constantly working towards adapting and certifying our products for open solutions.

Carmenta Server is used:

  • As a core technology in Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) solutions
  • For publishing geodata according to the INSPIRE directive
  • For serving high-capacity public web map sites
  • In GIS clearinghouse solutions

Key Features:

  • Native reading of geospatial formats and databases
  • High performance
  • Easy set-up and administration
  • Compliant support for OGC standards

Product parts:

  • Carmenta Server Map Server
  • Carmenta Server Routing Server
  • Carmenta Server Geocoding Server

The Carmenta Server Architecture:
The Carmenta Server Architecture

Carmenta Server Extensions:

  • Web Features Extension – support for OGC Web Feature Service Specification (WFS) 1.0.0 and 1.1.0
  • Catalog Services Extension – support for OGC Catalog Service/Web Specification (CSW) 2.0.2
  • Web Coverages Extension – support for OGC Web Coverage Service Specification (WCS) 1.1.0

Carmenta Catalog Server:
The powerful features in the Catalog Services Extension are also available in a stand-alone solution for gathering, searching, updating and publishing information about GIS data and metadata. The Carmenta Catalog Server uses ISO standard metadata models and certified OGC interfaces to manage metadata of GIS services and datasets.

Live Carmenta Server site samples:

  • Trafiken.nu provides information for planning journeys (Customer: The Swedish Transport Administration) (In Swedish)
  • BatMan is a bridge and tunnel management system (Customer: The Swedish Transport Administration) (In Swedish)
  • MyMap is web map portal (Customer: Infab) (In Swedish)
  • HELCOM is the Helsinki Commission Hydrographic Re-Survey-plan (Customer: The Swedish Maritime Administration)