Sally's Summit Summary

[Ned Harding]

> 5) plug-in support for input formats (as a start).

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.

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-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Developers List [mailto:MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
Behalf Of Steve Lime
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 11:46 AM
To: MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-DEV] Sally's Summit Summary

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...

We talked about several general areas of new development:

1) a new rendering back-end for high quality raster output- both cairo
(http://www.cairographics.org/) and Anti-Grain (http://antigrain.com/) 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.

2) splined or path following text labels. (Unfortunately none of the
graphics libs mentioned support this out of the box... *sigh*)

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.

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...

5) plug-in support for input formats (as a start).

We also chatted about a tentative release schedule. A version 4.8 in
December, with a 5.0 sometime before the 2006 conference.

That's what I took away from that meeting. Great to see everyone!

Steve
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