Dear Jason/Kenneth Many Thanks. Things now make sense!.
John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason Birch Sent: 20 August 2007 16:31 To: MapGuide Users Mail List Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] Where did the original MapGuide OpenSourcecodecome from? Hi John That article is (understandably) a bit confusing; the messages floating around at that point were still unclear. The relationship between MapGuide and members of the UMN MapServer technical steering committee was limited to the initial re-branding into MapServer Enterprise and Cheetah and the establishment of the MapServer Foundation. The name change ran into some serious community push-back and failed, and the MapServer Foundation turned into the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). Although UMN MapServer and MapGuide Open Source use some of the same open source libraries (PROJ.4, GEOS, GDAL, GD, etc), they do not share code at an application level. As Kenneth indicates, MapGuide Open Source was a ground-up project internal to Autodesk. While there are some indications that developers have referenced routines from various proprietary Autodesk platforms (e.g. http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/browser/trunk/MgDev/Common/Geometry/Spati al/SpatialUtilityCircularArc.cpp#L369 ), I haven't seen any shared code with MapServer. Autodesk is still the sole contributor of the core C++ MapGuide components (I hope that changes eventually), but DM Solutions Group has become actively involved in the Web UI components (Web Studio and Fusion). You can see from RFCs 24, 25, and 28 (http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfcs) that this involvement is being welcomed and actively supported by the entire PSC, including the Autodesk development team. Jason -----Original Message----- From: John Roberts Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] Where did the original MapGuide Open Sourcecodecome from? Dear Kenneth That is interesting. I had thought that it was the Autodesk MapGuide code that had been the source of MapGuide Open Source. However, with regard to MapServer, this is the article in Directions Mag that I found. It refers specifically to Stephen Lime's MapServer being involved. What do you think? Does anybody else know what MapServer's involvement was? John Manchester, UK _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users
