[OSGeo-Discuss] Welcome mappyfile as official OSGeo Community Project

[Astrid Emde (OSGeo)]

2023-09-28
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https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/welcome-mappyfile-as-official-osgeo-community-project/

OSGeo is pleased to welcome mappyfile as official OSGeo Community 
Project.

https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mappyfile/

mappyfile is a Python library that can be used to create, parse, modify, 
and format MapServer Mapfiles. It was first released in 2017 and 
presented at FOSS4G Europe that year. It has been continually developed 
since.

With a new official version 1.0 released to celebrate becoming an OSGeo 
Community Project.

Tom Kralidis (OSGeo Board member) says, “it is exciting to see mappyfile 
in the OSGeo Community project ecosystem. mappyfile makes MapServer 
mapfiles fully composable with minimum dependencies. This has proven 
very flexible and powerful for projects with real-time and automated 
workflows. Congratulations and welcome mappyfile!”.

mappyfile can be used to easily update and adapt Mapfiles for different 
environments and datasets. It is a Python library with no dependencies 
on MapServer and can easily be deployed to reformat and validate 
Mapfiles as part of a continuous integration pipeline. mappyfile 
includes Mapfile schemas for different versions of MapServer allowing 
Mapfiles to be easily migrated to newer versions of MapServer.

If you are using many Mapfiles across different environments and 
projects please give mappyfile a try!

An online-editor built on mappyfile is available at 
https://app.mapserverstudio.net/.

Source Code https://github.com/geographika/mappyfile

Documentation https://mappyfile.readthedocs.io/