The next MapGuide is shaping up

Following the Timeline for MapGuide Open source, there has been a flurry of commits in the last week or so. What is particularly refreshing to see is a lot of minor bug fixes and tweaks which reflect the evolution of this product over time.

Evolution is great thing to see, here are some highlights of the next release:

• Performance improvements, mainly the caching of schema information which drastically improves the performance of database providers. (RFC 53)


• Unmanaged mappings no longer require a server restart (#829)


• Raster reprojection (RFC 51) means you no longer need to have your raster in the current map projection


• Legend images aren't requested when the legend is hidden (#827)


• Numerous WMS fixes (#794, #808)


• Annotation drawing should be faster when display is dense (#761)


• Pooled RDBMS connection fails if RDBMS drops connection (#825)


• New CS-MAP projection system, as used in MapGuide Enterprise(RFC 55)


• Polylines can disappear completely using AGG renderer (#632)


• Advanced placement problems (#732)


• Detailed Server Logging (RFC 49)


• ResourceExists API call implemented (#288)


• MgWktReaderWrite performs horrendously on large Polygons (#627)

Fusion has also been drastically improved and loads much much faster!

King Oracle 0.8.5 is the first version of this provider which I have been happy enough to actually put into production! This also works with the current release 2.0.2

All up the next release is shaping up to be a pleasure to use!

Fingers crossed that the long oustanding GDAL provider problem gets fixed (#462)

I am also hoping to see some improvements with the labelling for tiled maps (#792)
and the issues with PNG8 compression not preserving fill colors (#813)

For more information, head over to Mapguide Central