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MapServer Project Report for 2007-2008
Presented at the 2008 OSGeo Annual General Meeting in Cape Town, October 2, 2008.
Progress on incubation
... finally about ready to graduate
5.2 release in July 2008
- Nearly 200 tickets were closed as part of this effort.
- Notable features and enhancements include:
- MapServer users manual (docs wrapped into a single downloadable PDF)
- Performance enhancements for large shapefile handling (following Geoserver comparison)
- Performance enhancements for AGG rendering (an order of magnitude faster in some cases)
- Rendering improvements:
- fuzzy label outlines for AGG
- style-level opacity for AGG
- quantization and palette support for PNGs and RGBA modes
- pre-clip label point computation (helps in tile generation)
- OGC Web Services:
- WCS 1.1.0 support (RFC-41)
- SOS 1.0.0 support
- WFS 1.1.0 support
- Compliance testing (WMS 1.1.1 ready to certify)
- proxy and http authentication support for cascaded WMS requests
- Support for auth cookie forwarding (RFC-42)
- Direct tile generation for Google Maps API (RFC-43)
- Native Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Support (RFC-38)
- extent (e.g. shpext, mapext) template tag attribute handling
- Simplified Template Support for Query Output (MS RFC 36)
- Thanks to all contributors (devs, docs, testers, $$). Special thanks to USACE for funding lots of that work.
What's coming
- 5.4 release early 2009
- Tuning and performance optimization
- Features:
- WMS 1.3.0
- KML output
- XML mapfile???
- Rendering enhancements:
- fractional line width (0.5 pixel lines with AGG)
- label positioning enhancements (following comparison with Geoserver)
- and many others as detailed in RFC 45
- unified rendering API (merge GD, AGG, etc...), this is a *hopefully* pending GD 3.0
- label text transformations RFC 40
- hoping that a OpenGL renderer will be donated to the project???
- URL-based configuration expansion (RFC-44)
- scale-dependent tile index support
- Docs
- Docs: debugging and tuning guide
- Work on a new website or improve existing site
- New mapserver demo (based loosely on the OpenLayers functional demos)
Stats
- Number of members on lists:
- users: 1843
- dev: 339
- Welcome 3 new committers:
- Jeff McKenna
- Paul Ramsey
- Alan Boudreault
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