Steve Lime schrieb: > 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.
If someone could point me to MapServer powered sites, I'll update the screenshot in the flyer. > > - Perhaps the screen shots could be a bit taller, more of a square aspect > ratio? Ok, I'll take a further look. > > - 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... Thanks for this info. I'm putting it in. > > 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. > Sounds like an interesting roadmap, I'll spread the word... ;) Lars _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
