MapServer Report 2008

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)