[mapguide-internals] Please test MGOS 1.2.0 Beta 2

[Andy Morsell]

And, since Frank continues to maintain this out of the kindness of his
heart, I would like to offer something in exchange for seeing continued GDAL
FDO improvements.  Often, raster support is one of the most important
aspects of any of my clients MapGuide sites.  And, good performance for a
wide variety of formats, especially wavelet compressed formats is
particularly important.   The need for tile spatial indexing (raster
catalogs) is also very important as many people maintain their imagery cut
up into these tiles and the current read mechanisms are too inefficient for
images maintained this way.  

I know it's not much, but I am willing to contribute $1000 to Frank
specifically for GDAL FDO maintenance and improvements.  Perhaps this will
also spur others who need fast and stable raster support to also contribute
to this fund.  

Sincerely,


Andy Morsell, P.E.
President
Spatial Integrators, Inc.
http://www.SpatialGIS.com

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[mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jason Birch
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 7:15 PM
To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
Subject: RE: [mapguide-internals] Please test MGOS 1.2.0 Beta 2

... and I guess that if the problem doesn't require a new build of MapGuide
(just new dlls on Frank's site) then there isn't a need for a MapGuide beta.
 
My main concern is that these critical formats are not supported, officially
or unofficially, by the MapGuide project or the FDO project, and we are
relying on Frank's kindness for ongoing maintenance and distribution.  I
sure hope that the wavelet compression folks see the light and open source
their reader libraries...
 
Jason
 
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From: Paul Spencer
Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] Please test MGOS 1.2.0 Beta 2



I'm in favour of cutting a release now and then doing another beta as soon
as the ECW/MrSID problems can be worked out.  Release early, release often!