Request for Comments

A MapServer RFC describes a major change in the technological underpinnings of MapServer, major additions to functionality, or changes in the direction of the project.

• MS RFC 1: Technical Steering Committee Guidelines
• MS RFC 2: Creating line features and/or shapes using WKT
• MS RFC 3: Feature Layer Plug-in Architecture
• MS RFC 4: MapServer Raster Resampling
• MS RFC 5: MapServer Horizon Reprojection Improvements
• MS RFC 6: Color Range Mapping of Continuous Feature Values
• MS RFC 7: MapServer CVS Commit Management
• MS RFC 7.1: MapServer SVN Commit Management
• MS RFC 8: Pluggable External Feature Layer Providers
• MS RFC 9: Item tag for query templates
• MS RFC 10: Joining the Open Source Geospatial Foundation
• MS RFC 11: Support for Curved Labels
• MS RFC 12: C code Unit tests
• MS RFC 13: Support of Sensor Observation Service in MapServer
• MS RFC 14: Relative Coordinates for INLINE features
• MS RFC 15: Support for thread neutral operation of MapServer/MapScript
• MS RFC 16: MapScript WxS Services
• MS RFC 17: Dynamic Allocation of layers, styles, classes and symbols
• MS RFC 18: Encryption of passwords in mapfiles
• MS RFC 19: Style & Label attribute binding
• MS RFC 21: MapServer Raster Color Correction
• MS RFC 22a: Feature cache for long running processes and query processing
• MS RFC 23: Technical Steering Committee Guidelines
• MS RFC 25: Align MapServer pixel and extent models with OGC models
• MS RFC 26: Version 5 Terminology Cleanup
• MS RFC 27: Label Priority
• MS RFC 28: Redesign of LOG/DEBUG output mechanisms
• MS RFC 29: Dynamic Charting Capability
• MS RFC 30: Support for WMS 1.3.0
• MS RFC 31: Loading MapServer Objects from Strings
• MS RFC 32: Support for Anti-Grain Geometry (AGG) Rendering Engine
• MS RFC 33: Removing msLayerWhichItems() from maplayer.c
• MS RFC 34: MapServer Release Manager and Release Process
• MS RFC 35: Standards Compliance Enforcement
• MS RFC 36: Simplified template support for query output
• MS RFC 37: MapServer Spatial Reference Improvements and Additions
• MS RFC 38: Native Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Driver for MapServer
• MS RFC 39: Support of WMS/SLD Named Styles
• MS RFC 40: Support Label Text Transformations
• MS RFC 41: Support of WCS 1.1.x Protocol
• MS RFC 42: Support of Cookies Forwarding
• MS RFC 43: Direct tile generation for Google Maps and Virtual Earth API
• MS RFC 44: Restore URL modification of mapfiles to pre-5.0 levels
• MS RFC 45: Symbology, Labeling, and Cartography Improvements
• MS RFC 46: Migrate Website to OSGeo
• MS RFC 47: Move IGNORE_MISSING_DATA to run-time configuration
• MS RFC 48: GEOTRANSFORM Geometry operations
• MS RFC 49: Symbology, Labeling, and Cartography Improvements
• MS RFC 50: OpenGL Rendering Support
• MS RFC 51: XML Mapfile Format
• MS RFC 52: One-pass query processing
• MS RFC 53: Guidelines for MapScript method return values
• MS RFC 54: Rendering Interface API
• MS RFC 55: Improve control of output resolution
• MS RFC 56: Tighten control of access to mapfiles and templates
• MS RFC 57: Labeling enhancements: ability to repeat labels along a line/multiline
• MS RFC 58: Kml Output
• MS RFC 59: Add Variable Binding to Database Connection Types
• MS RFC 60: Labeling enhancement: ability to skip ANGLE FOLLOW labels with too much character overlap
• MS RFC 61: Enhance MapServer Feature Style Support
• MS RFC 62: Support Additional WFS GetFeature Output Formats
• MS RFC 63: Built-in OpenLayers map viewer
• MS RFC 64 - MapServer Expression Parser Overhaul
• MS RFC 65 - Single-pass Query Changes for 6.0
• MS RFC 66: Better handling of temporary files
• MS RFC 67: Enable/Disable Layers in OGC Web Services
• MS RFC 68: Support for combining features from multiple layers
• MS RFC 69: Support for clustering of features in point layers
• MS RFC 70: Integration of TinyOWS in MapServer project
• MS RFC 71: Integration of Mod-Geocache in the MapServer project
• MS RFC 72: Layer and Label-Level Geomtransforms
• MS RFC 73: Improved SVG symbols support
• MS RFC 74: Includes from non-file connections (eg Databases)
• MS RFC 75: INSPIRE view service support
• MS RFC 76: Adding License Metadata to Output Images
• MS RFC 77: Support for Multiple Label Objects Within a Class
• MS RFC 78: Vector Field Rendering (CONNECTIONTYPE UVRASTER)
• MS RFC 79: Layer Masking
• MS RFC 80: Font Fallback Support
• MS RFC 81: Offset Labels with Leader Lines
• MS RFC 82: Support for Enhanced Layer Metadata Management
• MS RFC 83: Source tree reorganization
• MS RFC 84: Migrate project repository from svn to git