OSGeo is planning to participate in the 2007 Google Summer of Code. This page will be used to coordinate potential activities for the !MapGuide Open Source project.

== Potential Projects ==

=== Web Studio Enhancements ===

[Mentor: Paul Spencer]

This project entails working with AJAX techniques to make a number of improvements to !MapGuide Web Studio, including adding support for all FDO providers (generically), color selection tools, map thematic generation logic and user interface improvements, etc.

=== !MapGuide and Google Web Toolkit ===

[Mentor: Simon Pelicon (Haris Kurtagic)]

Develop !MapGuide Java AJAX viewer using Google Web Toolkit framework.

=== TileMapService Publishing ===

[Mentor: Jason Birch]

The [http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Tile_Map_Service_Specification TMS Specification] provides a well documented method for sharing pyramid-based map tile caches between multiple mapping applications.  This scales to public use much better than WMS, and allows extension of !MapGuide's internal tile caching service to external applications.

This component of the project would involve the development of a PHP "gateway" script that exposes a !MapGuide tile cache as a TMS service.

==== GeoRSS Publishing ====

[Mentor: Jason Birch]

Adoption of [http://www.georss.org/ GeoRSS] as a simple method of sharing spatial information is growing rapidly.  There are several compelling use cases for this.  At the municipal level, it would be desirable to generate feeds of spatially related information such as recent fire calls, approved building permits, and road closures.

This component of the project would involve the development of a PHP "gateway" script that allows the end user to configure the Geometry, Name, Description, and Modified Date from an existing feature source, and present this as a GeoRSS feed in any of Atom 1.0, RSS 1.0, and RSS 2.0 formats, leveraging the GeoRSS Simple and GML profiles.