[mapserver-dev] MapServer project update for 2007-2008

[Daniel Morissette]

Following up on this, I have added a copy of the project update for this 
year in the Trac wiki:

   https://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/OSGeo-AGM-Project-Report-2008

It is linked from the main Trac wiki page. Let's try to add it there 
every year.

Daniel


Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thursday, I will present a quick (3-5 minutes) summary of the 
> activities of the last year of the MapServer project at the OSGeo Annual 
> General Meeting in Cape Town.
> 
> Please see below the list of items I came up with. Is there anything 
> you'd like to see added or corrected?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> MapServer project update:
> 
> - Progress on incubation
>    ... about ready to graduate
> 
> - 5.2 release July 2008
>   Nearly 200 tickets were closed as part of this effort.
> 
>   Notable features and enhancements include:
>     * MapServer users manual (docs wrapped into a single downloadable PDF)
>     * performance enhancements for large shapefile handling (following 
> Geoserver comparison)
>     * performance enhancements for AGG rendering (an order of magnitude 
> faster in some cases)
>     * Rendering improvements:
>       * fuzzy label outlines for AGG
>       * style-level opacity for AGG
>       * quantization and palette support for PNGs and RGBA modes
>       * pre-clip label point computation (helps in tile generation)
>     * OGC Web Services:
>       * WCS 1.1.0 support (RFC-41)
>       * SOS 1.0.0 support
>       * WFS 1.1.0 support
>       * Compliance testing (WMS 1.1.1 ready to certify)
>     * proxy and http authentication support for cascaded WMS requests
>     * Support for auth cookie forwarding (RFC-42)
>     * Direct tile generation for Google Maps API (RFC-43)
>     * Native Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Support (RFC-38)
>     * extent (e.g. shpext, mapext) template tag attribute handling
> 
> The following RFCs were in the 5.2 list, were they implemented?
> 
>   ?? * MS RFC 36: Simplified Template Support for Query Output
>   ?? * MS RFC 37: Spatial Reference Improvements and Additions
> 
> - What's coming:
>     - WMS 1.3.0
>     - KML output
>     - XML mapfile
>     - Rendering enhancements:
>         - fractional line width (0.5 pixel lines with AGG)
>         - label placement enhancements (following comparison with 
> Geoserver)
>     - Tuning and performance optimization
>     - Docs: debugging and tuning guide
>     - Work on a new website or improve existing site
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Daniel Morissette
http://www.mapgears.com/