Presented at FOSS4G 2009 in Sydney, Australia

1. MapServer Project Status Daniel Morissette, Mapgears Jeff McKenna, Gateway Geomatics Paul Ramsey, OpenGeo

3. Statistics

4. Highlights of 2008-2009

5. Future plans

6. How to contribute

7. Q & A

8. History 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 ForNet project starts (imgserv) Shapelib + GD release (mapserv) V 1.0 V 2.0 (Public release as ForNet MapServer) V 3.0 (UMN MapServer, raster + Truetype added) V 3.3 (MapScript, PROJ4 added) V 3.4 (PHP MapScript added) V 4.0 (OGC WFS. SWF, PDF and GDAL output, +++ ...) Web-based Arc/Info AML Generation V 4.2 (OGC WMS SLD, WFS Filters, ...) V 4.4 (OGC WCS, WMS Time, i18n, ...) V 4.6 (SVG output, GEOS, ...) V 4.8 (OGC SOS) V 4.8 (OGC SOS) V 4.10 (angle follow), 5.0 (AGG) V 5.2 (Move to OSGeo, Incubation) V 5.4, 5.6 (Performance, rendering, security) V 6.0 (rend. API)

12. PSC: 11 members

13. 22 committers, 170k lines of code

14. Downloads? (MS4W: 2-3k/month?)

16. Daniel Morissette

17. Frank Warmerdam

18. Yewondwossen Assefa

19. Howard Butler

20. Steve Woodbridge

22. Jeff McKenna

23. Umberto Nicoletti

24. Tamas Szekeres

26. OSGeo4W

28. UbuntuGIS

29. DebianGIS

31. Graduation from Incubation

32. Code Sprints

33. WMS Performance Shoot-out

34. Website enhancements

36. 5.4.0 – April 22, 2009

37. 5.4.1 – June 2, 2009

38. 5.4.2 – July 24, 2009

42. TODO: buffer, labelpoint, convexhull, simplify

44. Fractional SIZE / WIDTH values

46. MIN/MAXSCALE -> MIN / MAXSCALE DENOM

47. Security updates

49. 5.6.0 - November 2009

51. RFC 52: One-pass query processing

52. RFC 55: Improved control of output resolution

54. Optimized access to very large shapefiles

57. Better curve labeling

58. Labeling of graticule on border

59. AGG source files embedded

60. Security fixes

62. Releases of 5.4.x, 5.2.3 and 4.10.5 with several security fixes

64. Require <!-- MapServer Template -->

65. MS_MAP_PATTERN env. var.

66. MS_MAP_NOPATH env. var.

69. Source code provenance review

70. Open decision and management process (PSC)

71. Documented development and management processes

72. Use of open collaboration tools (SVN, Trac, Wiki, Lists, IRC)

74. One-pass query processing

75. Performance optimizations

76. Rendering enhancement discussions

77. XML mapfile schema/XSLT

78. Website enhancements: tutorial creation

80. Documentation

86. 3 rd edition, highlights areas for improvement

87. More info at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Benchmarking_2009

88. Presentation: Friday at 15:00

90. Using Sphinx ReST + SVN

91. Downloadable PDF version

92. Multilingual site underway (DE translation begun...completion for v6.0 release)

94. Cairo support

95. OpenGL rendering

96. KML Output (GSoC project)

98. Continued work on performance

99. MapServer Blog, Twitter channel?

101. MapScript API cleanup

102. GD support cleanup

103. Template cleanup (simplify tags)

104. Support for label styles

105. Inline SLD

106. Support for block references (styles, labels)

107. Object serialization to string

109. Bug reports in Trac, including test cases

110. Documentation (wiki, report issues in Trac)

112. New features

113. Binary builds

114. Questions - Discussion