| | 1 | = MapServer Project Report for 2007-2008 = |
| | 2 | Presented at the 2008 OSGeo Annual General Meeting in Cape Town, October 2, 2008. |
| | 3 | |
| | 4 | == Progress on incubation == |
| | 5 | ... finally about ready to graduate |
| | 6 | |
| | 7 | == 5.2 release in July 2008 == |
| | 8 | * Nearly 200 tickets were closed as part of this effort. |
| | 9 | * Notable features and enhancements include: |
| | 10 | * MapServer users manual (docs wrapped into a single downloadable PDF) |
| | 11 | * Performance enhancements for large shapefile handling (following Geoserver comparison) |
| | 12 | * Performance enhancements for AGG rendering (an order of magnitude faster in some cases) |
| | 13 | * Rendering improvements: |
| | 14 | * fuzzy label outlines for AGG |
| | 15 | * style-level opacity for AGG |
| | 16 | * quantization and palette support for PNGs and RGBA modes |
| | 17 | * pre-clip label point computation (helps in tile generation) |
| | 18 | * OGC Web Services: |
| | 19 | * WCS 1.1.0 support (RFC-41) |
| | 20 | * SOS 1.0.0 support |
| | 21 | * WFS 1.1.0 support |
| | 22 | * Compliance testing (WMS 1.1.1 ready to certify) |
| | 23 | * proxy and http authentication support for cascaded WMS requests |
| | 24 | * Support for auth cookie forwarding (RFC-42) |
| | 25 | * Direct tile generation for Google Maps API (RFC-43) |
| | 26 | * Native Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Support (RFC-38) |
| | 27 | * extent (e.g. shpext, mapext) template tag attribute handling |
| | 28 | * Simplified Template Support for Query Output (MS RFC 36) |
| | 29 | * Thanks to USACE for supporting lots of that work |
| | 30 | |
| | 31 | == What's coming == |
| | 32 | * 5.4 release early 2009 |
| | 33 | * Tuning and performance optimization |
| | 34 | * Features: |
| | 35 | - WMS 1.3.0 |
| | 36 | - KML output |
| | 37 | - XML mapfile??? |
| | 38 | - Rendering enhancements: |
| | 39 | - fractional line width (0.5 pixel lines with AGG) |
| | 40 | - label positioning enhancements (following comparison with Geoserver) |
| | 41 | - and many others as detailed in RFC 45 |
| | 42 | - unified rendering API (merge GD, AGG, etc...), this is a *hopefully* pending GD 3.0 |
| | 43 | - label text transformations RFC 40 |
| | 44 | - hoping that a OpenGL renderer will be donated to the project??? |
| | 45 | - URL-based configuration expansion (RFC-44) |
| | 46 | - scale-dependent tile index support |
| | 47 | * Docs |
| | 48 | - Docs: debugging and tuning guide |
| | 49 | - Work on a new website or improve existing site |
| | 50 | - New mapserver demo (based loosely on the OpenLayers functional demos) |
| | 51 | |
| | 52 | == Stats == |
| | 53 | * Number of members on lists: |
| | 54 | * users: 1843 |
| | 55 | * dev: 339 |
| | 56 | * Welcome 3 new committers: |
| | 57 | * Jeff !McKenna |
| | 58 | * Paul Ramsey |
| | 59 | * Alan Boudreault |
