[mapserver-dev] MapServer project update for 2007-2008

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi,

On Thursday, I will present a quick (3-5 minutes) summary of the 
activities of the last year of the MapServer project at the OSGeo Annual 
General Meeting in Cape Town.

Please see below the list of items I came up with. Is there anything 
you'd like to see added or corrected?

Thanks

Daniel


MapServer project update:

- Progress on incubation
    ... about ready to graduate

- 5.2 release 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

The following RFCs were in the 5.2 list, were they implemented?

   ?? * MS RFC 36: Simplified Template Support for Query Output
   ?? * MS RFC 37: Spatial Reference Improvements and Additions

- What's coming:
     - WMS 1.3.0
     - KML output
     - XML mapfile
     - Rendering enhancements:
         - fractional line width (0.5 pixel lines with AGG)
         - label placement enhancements (following comparison with 
Geoserver)
     - Tuning and performance optimization
     - Docs: debugging and tuning guide
     - Work on a new website or improve existing site