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Seattle, Washington/U.S.A., 2007-09-19 [pt-BR]

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation proudly announced that version 5.0 of MapServer web mapping platform is available for download from the project website.

MapServer 5.0 is the first major release since version 4.0 in July of 2003. While there have been regular releases every 6 months or so this is the first time developers felt the new feature set warranted the “major release” label.

Highlights

• RFC 29 - Dynamic Charting Capability
• RFC 21 - Raster Color Correction
• RFC 32 - Support for AGG as rendering engine ( which means: better image output quality)
• RFC 27 - Label Priority
• RFC 19 - Style & Label attribute binding
• RFC 28 - Redesign of LOG/DEBUG output mechanisms
• RFC 17 - Dynamic Allocation of layers, styles, classes and symbols
• RFC 24 - Mapscript memory management
• general OGC implementation improvements

Perhaps the most important new feature is support for map rendering using the Anti-grain Geometry (AGG) graphics library. AGG brings high quality 2-D rendering capabilities to MapServer that will allow users to create maps with vastly improved cartographic quality.

About MapServer

MapServer is an open source development environment for building spatially-enabled web mapping applications and services. It is fast, flexible, reliable and can be integrated into just about any GIS environment.

Originally developed at the University of Minnesota, MapServer is now maintained by developers around the world.

MapServer runs on all major operating systems and will work with almost any web server. MapServer features MapScript, a powerful scripting environment that supports many popular languages including PHP, Python, Perl, C# and Java. Using MapScript makes it fast and easy to build complex geospatial web applications.

About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data. The Foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit.

OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The Foundation’s projects are all freely available and useable under an OSI-certified open source license.

Additional information

• MapServer flyer
• MapServer installers: FWTools, MS4W
• Migration guide - 4 to 5 release

Source: OSGeo

© Copyright 2007 Open Source Geospatial Foundation, under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives (by-nd) License.