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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> 5) plug-in support for input formats (as a start).</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>We've been little slow, since I was talking about this a year ago, but I have a developer who is actively working on this.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Ned Harding</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Chief Technology Officer</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>SRC - Extending the Reach of Micromarketing</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>3825 Iris Ave Suite 150</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Boulder, CO 80303</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>(303) 440-8896 x104</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://www.extendthereach.com" TARGET="_blank">http://www.extendthereach.com</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Technology in Action:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://www.DemographicsNow.com" TARGET="_blank">http://www.DemographicsNow.com</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: UMN MapServer Developers List [<A HREF="mailto:MAPSERVER-DEV@LISTS.UMN.EDU">mailto:MAPSERVER-DEV@LISTS.UMN.EDU</A>] On Behalf Of Steve Lime</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 11:46 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: MAPSERVER-DEV@LISTS.UMN.EDU</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-DEV] Sally's Summit Summary</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hi All: Just a quick summary of what we chatted about on Saturday evening at Sally's. Please add too this as you search your memory...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>We talked about several general areas of new development:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>1) a new rendering back-end for high quality raster output- both cairo (<A HREF="http://www.cairographics.org/" TARGET="_blank">http://www.cairographics.org/</A>) and Anti-Grain (<A HREF="http://antigrain.com/" TARGET="_blank">http://antigrain.com/</A>) were discussed. Both seem to be a bit immature with tiny developer communities. I'd like to offer up ImageMagick as another possiblity - very mature, antialiased lines plus a host of other image manipulation stuff. Just another one to do evaluation on. This might manifest itself as a single "QUALITY" option with values like HIGH/REGULAR.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>2) splined or path following text labels. (Unfortunately none of the graphics libs mentioned support this out of the box... *sigh*)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>3) an updated symbol/style model that leverages or follows a standard such as SLD or CSS. CSS may be prefered at this point- SVG like support for styles. Concensus was that a change like this would necessitate a MapServer 5.0 release.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>4) image caching, that is changing the way the CGI writes file names. Talked about md5 hashes, plus a multiple directory storage option. Might manifest itself as a "IMAGECACHE ON/OFF" option...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>5) plug-in support for input formats (as a start).</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>We also chatted about a tentative release schedule. A version 4.8 in December, with a 5.0 sometime before the 2006 conference.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>That's what I took away from that meeting. Great to see everyone!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Steve</FONT>
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