From: Diez, M. <Mat...@ie...> - 2006-12-22 01:19:37
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December 21, 2006 - The Community Mapbuilder Team are proud to announce = the first release in our 1.5 series. The 1.5-alpha1 release is packed full of new features, including Faster = downloading, Vector Rendering, Integration with OpenLayers, SLD Editing, = support for OWS Context, GeoRSS, GML, WFS layers. While core functionality remains stable, based on three years of = development and testing, new features still have some major bugs and = should be used for testing but should not be deployed yet. We plan to = stablize the 1.5 branch early in 2007. Our Mapbuilder development team continues to grow, we recently welcomed = Sefano Menegon, Dirk van den Elzen, John Pulles, Vincent Schut, Saul = Farber, and Gertjan van Oosten. NEW FEATURES: Vector rendering using SVG/VML: SVG and VML rendering is available for recent browsers using MapPane2 = and MapPaneOL. This rendering is much faster than the previous = WZGraphics library. Integration with OpenLayers: The MapPaneOL widget now uses OpenLayers for rendering. This means we = can easilly tap into OpenLayer's support for numerous map providers. Eg: Tiled WMS, Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, MSN Maps, WFS, GML, etc. We still haven't integrated the Mapbuilder tools with OpenLayer tools = yet, but that is expected to be completed for the next release. Faster startup: Mapbuilder is now bundled up into one file and compressed into a half = its original size. OWS Context: Mapbuilder previously stored its LayerList in a Web Map Context (WMC) = document. A WMC describes a list of WMS layers. The latest Mapbuilder = supports the OGC's draft OWS Context specification which extends the WMC to include: = WFS layers, GeoRSS layers, GML Layers. The OWS Context is rendered by the new MapPane2 and MapPaneOL widgets. = In the next release, we plan to deprecate MapPane2 and MapPane and = replace them by MapPaneOL. SLD Editor: We now have a Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Editor example. A SLD = describes whether you map features should be rendered as red fat lines = or blue thin lines and you can apply styles to maps. GeoRSS: We have some GeoRSS examples which include rendering vector layers = SVG/VML. ------=20 About Community Mapbuilder http://communitymapbuilder.org Community MapBuilder is a powerful, standards compliant, open source, = geographic mapping client which runs in a web browser. It is part of the = OSGeo stable of quality Open Source Geospatial projects. About OpenLayers http://openlayers.org/ OpenLayers is a browser based, open source, webmapping client which = accesses a variety of basemaps. IEM CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION PLEASE READ OUR NOTICE: http://www.iem.com/e_mail_confidentiality_notice.html |