agg changes

[Paul Spencer]

No worries then!  I still think it is a good idea to have some sort  
of cartographic needs assessment post 5.0.  While I am not a  
cartographer, I would be willing to commit time to helping out with  
such a task and would be able to involve others at DMSG to a limited  
extent as well, more if we can align it with projects of course.

Cheers

Paul

On 30-Aug-07, at 9:58 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> Paul,
>
> Unfortunately at a few days from the release I think it's too late  
> to strip out stuff. Your reasoning makes sense, but in the interest  
> of getting a release out I have to say "no more changes in 5.0".
>
> Daniel
>
>
> Paul Spencer wrote:
>> Steve,
>> I'd like to suggest defering cartographic enhancements (by which I  
>> mean additional keywords in the map file to specify more advanced  
>> cartographic options) until post 5.0.  I think, since you are  
>> moving from 4.x to 5.x and *can* make some changes that are not  
>> necessarily backwards compatible, that you should consider  
>> removing things from the mapfile at this point that don't work or  
>> won't be supported in order to establish a minimum baseline which  
>> the 5.x series can build on by adding new features without having  
>> to make an incompatible change in the next version.  Essentially,  
>> I am advocating stripping out as much as possible/practical, and  
>> then adding new stuff post 5.0.
>> Looking forward to 5.2, I think it would be really beneficial to  
>> start a dialog with the user community on cartographic needs and  
>> try to establish a set of requirements that can be built towards  
>> in the 5.x series.  I know that MapGuide has implemented point and  
>> line support for a massive USGS cartographic standard and has some  
>> very impressive demos of the new cartography.  There is also a  
>> large document describing the cartographic needs of the Canadian  
>> national dataset folks.  There are probably other 'standards' out  
>> there too.
>> AGG has given mapserver an excellent foundation to build on for  
>> premium cartography, and I think it would be a mistake to leave  
>> stuff in mapserver 5.0 that we may regret post 5.0.
>> Cheers
>> Paul
>> +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
>> |Paul Spencer                          pspencer at dmsolutions.ca    |
>> +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
>> |Chief Technology Officer                                         |
>> |DM Solutions Group Inc                http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ |
>> +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
>
>
> -- 
> Daniel Morissette
> http://www.mapgears.com/

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
|Paul Spencer                          pspencer at dmsolutions.ca    |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
|Chief Technology Officer                                         |
|DM Solutions Group Inc                http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+