[mapguide-internals] Please test MGOS 1.2.0 Beta 2

[Andy Morsell]

Thanks for the information Frank.  Yes, I will still contribute that money
to the project(s) in some way or another.

What more can you (or Autodesk) tell us about the GDAL contract you are
working on?  Are they doing away with the ATIL provider, or is there going
to be convergence of the best of both?  Is their intention to release
anything you develop back to the GDAL and FDO projects?

Thanks for any information that you can provide.


Andy 

-----Original Message-----
From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Frank
Warmerdam
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:44 PM
To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] Please test MGOS 1.2.0 Beta 2

Andy Morsell wrote:
> 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.

Andy,

I do appreciate this offer but for now I've got a contract from Autodesk to
develop the GDAL based provider, and I'm willing to carry some overhead,
like producing custom binaries as goodwill related to that contract.

Once the contract is done, I think it might be interesting to consider some
mechanism to ensure the the mapguide os community gets the raster support it
needs.  That could mean folks in the community coming forward to help
prepare custom builds, or an OSGeo binary distribution mechanism that has
everything, or MapGuide/FDO having some sort of sponsorship program to
support maintaining some non-autodesk components.

In the meantime, horde that cash in a "community support" jar and I'll try
and produce new DLLs tomorrow if folks are pretty sure the current ones
don't work.

Best regards,
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