Tuesday, November 28. 2006

MapGuide Open Source Update

Here is the latest information on Autodesk's MapGuide open source software delivered at the MapGuide User's Group meeting duing the pre-conference meetings at Autodesk University in Las Vegas today:

MapGuide Product Road Map

MapGuide 1.0.2 – available now

MapGuide 1.1.0 – planned for availability in Dec. '06; features include:
Dynamic KML/KMZ support
Update to Feature Data Objects (FDO) 3.2
Dynamic Long Transaction support
Integrate provider into install
Tighter integration of API into .NET Framework

MapGuide 1.2.0 – release planned for April ‘07
Performance enhancements
Programatic load balanacing
Support for unmanaged data sources
Feature Join
MRU Tile Cache Management

White papers on FDO are now available at the Autodesk Geospatial website. FDO is Autodesk's technology to enable their geospatial applications (Autodesk Map 3D, Autodesk Civil 3D, Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise, and Autodesk Topobase™) to access and share spatial and nonspatial data.

Andrew Mackles, MapGuide Product Director, said that 23000 downloads of MapGuide Open Source have been made since its release. He believes that 1/3 of MapGuide customers are currently engaged in a pilot study.

Comments

Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

No comments

Add Comment

Name
Email
Homepage
In reply to	[ Top level ]
Comment	Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_. Standard emoticons like :-) and ;-) are converted to images. E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly. Enter the string from the spam-prevention image above:
	Remember Information?   Subscribe to this entry