[mapserver-dev] Removing features from MapServer 6.0

[Michael Smith]

Is there a Doc page that explains how to create imagemaps with templates and
[shpxy ...] tags? Once that's in place, then it makes sense to remove.

Mike


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Michael Smith
US Army Corps of Engineers
Remote Sensing/GIS Center
Hanover, NH 




On 6/12/10 7:16 PM, "Lime, Steve D (DNR)" <Steve.Lime at state.mn.us> wrote:

> 1) For image maps I've always used templates and a [shpxy ...] tag. It's
> pretty flexible.
> 
> 2) I think Frank has already performed the necessary surgery and all those
> internal drivers are gone (and GDAL is required for 6.0), so that's done.
> 
> Steve
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> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] Removing features from MapServer 6.0
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> Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:
>> Any thoughts on removing cruft as part of 6.0 development? I was thinking at
>> a minimum of removing:
>> 
>>   - MyGIS support
> 
> +1, yeah, I think this could go.
> 
>>   - Cartosymbols
> 
> +1, I think we have replaced most if not all of this with the agg render
> if there is any major missing overlap with agg, than we might want to
> write bugs against agg render
> 
>>   - Imagemap output driver
> 
> -0, is there a replacement for this functionality? If so, then I'm +1,
> but I think this is otherwise useful functionality. I know a bunch of
> people that use this to generate a large static image with imagemap that
> they put on web pages that do not have mapserver running on them.
> 
>>   - Eppl7 raster driver
> 
> +1, as I have never used it and I think it is fully supported via gdal
> 
> What about native geotiff support? this is deprecated and unsupported
> and the last I used it something broke and I was told to compile in gdal.
> 
> -Steve W
> 
>> 
>> Those are all old and generally unsupported. Others?
>> 
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