MapGuide Project Update - 2007 Q1

About MapGuide

MapGuide Open Source is an advanced platform for web-based geospatial application development, data update, and publishing. MapGuide incredibly flexible, being cross-platform (Windows and Linux) and cross-language (PHP, Java, and ASP.Net). It includes a strong geospatial processing API, and a large number of output formats, such as image (PNG, JPG, etc), WMS, WFS, and KML. In addition, by leveraging the flexible FDO Open Source data abstraction library, MapGuide can access multiple data sources, such as MySQL, PostGIS, Oracle, ArcSDE, Shape Files, SDF, WMS, WFS, and many image formats.

Recent Events

Since its initial release, there have been several signifigant events

• November 2005
  • Autodesk announces that new MapGuide code will be released as open source.
  • Technology preview release of MapGuide Open Source (under the name MapServer Enterprise)

• February 2006
  • MapGuide code is made available through the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
  • MapGuide Open Source 1.0.0 is released
  • MapGuide development team starts using public issue tracking and feedback mechanisms

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• November 2006
  • MapGuide Open Source Project Steering Committee is formed

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• January 2007
  • Implementation of Trac, a flexible development tracking system

Under Development

In the past months, several exciting new features have been added to MapGuide Open Source

• Native KML publishing, including support for regions, and view-based scale ranges.
• Introduction of a highly configurable stylization engine, allowing for complex custom point and line styles
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Statistics

• N Downloads of latest 1.1.0 release
• N Members of user / developer lists
• Active development involvement by the following organisations / people
  • Autodesk
  • DM Solutions Group
  • SL-King