Hi Lars, thanks for working up an updated brochure, looking at the old one it could use it. Some comments...
- I think I'd avoid the MapServer website screen shot in favor of another app. The website text features the security fix announcements which while a reality in a project aren't marketing friendly. I can offer a couple of sites as could others I bet. I like your example, nice and colorful. - Perhaps the screen shots could be a bit taller, more of a square aspect ratio? - Under features it might make sense to highlight output options: all sorts of raster images, PDF, SWF, SVG and templated text - Might include input and the new output plugin architectures as features - The "Leverages best-of-breed" sentence could be reworked to say we leverage other OSGeo projects including GDAL, GEOS, PostGIS and Proj.4. I think we should really emphasize the reliance on other OSGeo projects. - In the last feature sentence I think MapBuilder can be removed. There are some frameworks specific to (or that at least favor) MapServer (e.g. p.mapper and GeoMoose) that could get some love here... I think the 5.6 features are performance centric (raster rendering improvements, single pass, etc...). The 6.0 release *should* have a more output-based focus with full support for the rendering plugin, new object structures including references, better SLD support, styles within labels and so on. XML mapfiles will be in 5.6. It's important to note that XML mapfiles allow users to define a configuration in XML but you must transform it to a .map file for use. I hope that might really have an impact on wysiwyg editors eventually. That's all for now! Steve >>> Lars Lingner <[email protected]> 09/11/09 8:54 AM >>> Hi, I just updated the MapServer flyer at [1] with the new template available at [2]. The idea was to get new screenshots from nice, real life applications, but I couldn't find a MapServer gallery, just a old reference to [3]. So I took a screenshot of one of mine apps and of the MapServer website. It would be really great if someone could take a look and maybe update some facts about features or wording where necessary. There is a german and english file. Because of difficulties to commit to svn.osgeo.org I temporarily uploaded the files to my webspace [4]. Speaking of updating marketing material, I want to ask if someone could pass me some keywords of new features that where included lately or will be get included in MapServer. ...Cairo/OpenGL rendering, XML-Mapfile, AGG, performance improvements (one-pass query), multilingual website ;) ?? I'm holding a introductory presentation about MapServer. If there are some eye-catchers or cool buzz words worth including in a talk, please let me know. Lars [1] https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/flyer/project_brochure_pdfs/OSGeo_Brochures_Mapserver.pdf [2] https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/flyer/template/ [3] http://ms.gis.umn.edu/gallery/galleryfolder_view [4] http://www.lingner.eu/mydownloads/osgeo/OSGeo_MapServer_Flyer_template.pdf http://www.lingner.eu/mydownloads/osgeo/OSGeo_MapServer_Flyer_template.odp http://www.lingner.eu/mydownloads/osgeo/OSGeo_MapServer_Flyer_template_de.pdf http://www.lingner.eu/mydownloads/osgeo/OSGeo_MapServer_Flyer_template_de.odp _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
