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Posted by lorenz in News, Softwares on 01 27th, 2010 | 9 Comments

ESRI 2010 Mashup Challenge

ESRI 2010 Mashup Challenge
ESRI’s 2010 Mashup Challenge invites members of the geodeveloper community to stretch their imaginations, test their technical skills, and develop creative geospatial Web applications. The developers have to create an innovative mashup using ArcGIS Online and ESRI Web Mapping APIs for the chance...
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Posted by lorenz in News, Softwares on 01 24th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Mapnik 0.7.0 Released

Mapnik 0.7.0 Released
The Mapnik team have released version 0.7.0 of their open source map toolkit. The release targets stability and usability of the Mapnik Core and brings notable advancements to the Datasource Plugins. It also brings improvements and fixes to the C++ core that warrant a major release and new a ABI...
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Posted by lorenz in News, Softwares on 01 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

MapServer 5.6.1 released

MapServer 5.6.1 released
MapServer 5.6.1 has just been released and available for download now. No new functionality has been added. This is a maintenance release that fixes a few issues found in 5.6.0, including a few important ones related to queries that may have prevented some users from upgrading...
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Posted by lorenz in News, Softwares on 01 5th, 2010 | 2 Comments

MapServer 5.6.0 released

MapServer 5.6.0 released
MapServer 5.6.0 has just been released and available for download now. The new release contains a few new features and performance enhancements. New features: MS RFC 51: XML Mapfile schema and XSLT. MS RFC 52: One-pass query processing, making WFS queries on database backends much much faster. MS...
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Posted by lorenz in News, Softwares on 11 28th, 2009 | No Comments

MapServer 5.6.0-rc1 Released

MapServer 5.6.0-rc1 Released
MapServer 5.6.0-rc1 (release candidate 1) has just been released and available for download now, major issues about blocker has been fixed. Version 5.6.0-rc1 (2009-11-27): ——————————- - Fixed a problem with shape-based queries against...
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Posted by lorenz in Featured Articles, News on 11 20th, 2009 | No Comments

ArcGIS Online map services soon migrating to Google Maps/Bing Maps tiling scheme

ArcGIS Online map services soon migrating to Google Maps/Bing Maps tiling scheme
Last spring, ESRI announced that it would be migrating its hosted ArcGIS Online map services to the Google Maps/Bing Maps tiling scheme. This migration is expected to be completed in December 2009. This change is in response to feedback from many ArcGIS users who have requested that ESRI use a...
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Posted by lorenz in Featured Articles, News on 11 20th, 2009 | No Comments

MapServer 5.6.0-beta5 released

MapServer 5.6.0-beta5 released
MapServer has released 5.6.0-beta5 version that availabel for download now. This new beta addresses several issues, especially on the rendering front (see the list of fixes at the end of this message). We are still working on a blocker issue (Oracle driver memory leak) and should be able to move to...
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