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.

Posted by Joe Francica in AU 2006 at 01:32 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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