MapServer Report 2008
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MapServer
- Contact name: Steve Lime
Key Accomplishments
- MapServer 5.2 released in July:
- Nearly 200 tickets were closed as part of this effort.
- Notable features and enhancements include:
- 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
- Simplified Template Support for Query Output (MS RFC 36)
- New website launched in December! Quite an improvement for usability and maintainability over the previous site
- We moved from the UMN to OSGeo infrastructure (thanks to UMN for hosting us for all those years!)
- We finally got a hold of the mapserver.org domain which has become our new home
Areas for Improvement
- any weaknesses in process, software, management, etc. that you plan to address or recognise need some help
Opportunities to Help
- list areas that could use some help from members and readers of the report
Outlook for 2009
- MapServer 5.4 to be released in early March
- Strong presence at the Toronto Code Sprint in March where we will focus on 6.0 release features
- MapServer 6.0 release sometimes in the fall (hopefully before FOSS4G)