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 7.2: MapServer Git Push 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
- MS RFC 85: Vector Contour Rendering (CONNECTIONTYPE CONTOUR)
- MS RFC 86: Scale-dependant String Substitutions
- MS RFC 87: Bitmap pattern support
- MS RFC 88: Saving MapServer Objects to Strings
- MS RFC 89: Layer Geomtransforms
- MS RFC 90: Enable/Disable Layers in OGC Web Services by IP Lists
- MS RFC 91: Layer Filter Normalization
- MS RFC 92: Migrating from Autotools to CMake
- MS RFC 93: UTF Grid Support
- MS RFC 94: Shape Smoothing
- MS RFC 95: Support for lists in expression parser
- MS RFC 96: Time Dimension Support in MapCache Tilesets
- MS RFC 97: Dynamic creation of higher zoom levels tiles
- MS RFC 98: Label/Text Rendering Overhaul
- MS RFC 99: Remove support for GD renderer
- MS RFC 100: Support for tile index with mixed SRS in raster layers
- MS RFC 101: Add Support for Content Dependent Legend Responses
- MS RFC 102: Support of Styleitem JavaScript Plugin
- MS RFC 103: Layer Level Character Encoding Handling
- MS RFC 104: Replace BITMAP labels with embedded Truetype font
- MS RFC 105: Support for WFS 2.0 (server side)
- MS RFC 106: Support of Geomtransform JavaScript Plugin
- MS RFC 107: Support for the edge of pixel (OGC) extent model in MapServer
- MS RFC 108: Dynamic Heatmap (Kernel Density Estimation) Layers
- MS RFC 109: Optimizing Runtime Substitutions
- MS RFC 110: MapCache REST Cache Backends
- MS RFC 111: MapCache Support for animated time series
- MS RFC 112: Retry “Follow” label positioning after maxoverlapangle colision
- MS RFC 113: Layer Compositing Pipeline
- MS RFC 114: Faster retrieval of shape count
- MS RFC 115: Upgrade and cleanup of Tutorial and Demo datasets
- MS RFC 116: Listing of Service Providers on MapServer website
- MS RFC 117: PHP 7 MapScript Support Through SWIG
- MS RFC 118: Support Vendor-Specific OGC FILTER parameter in WMS requests
- MS RFC 119: Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT) Support
- MS RFC 120: INSPIRE download service support for WCS 2.0
- MS RFC 121: PostgreSQL and ElasticSearch Support in MapCache dimensions
- MS RFC 122: A Tool for Coverage Analysis of MapCache Multi-SQLite Caches
- MS RFC 123: Support for MapML output in MapServer
- MS RFC 124: Improving SLD Support in MapServer
- MS RFC 125: Support for CONNECTIONOPTIONS in mapfiles
- MS RFC 126: Port to PROJ 6 API
- MS RFC 127: Drop (broken) support for builds without GDAL and PROJ
- MS RFC 128: Make C99 and C++11 build requirements
- MS RFC 129: Update msautotest to use Pytest
- MS RFC 130: Add support to Z-top, a multi-SQLite, multi-pyramid cache structure
- MS RFC 131: Allow file paths in MapCache second level dimension values
- MS RFC 132: Update MapScript API Docs
- MS RFC 133: Mapfile Syntax Cleanup
- MS RFC 134: OGC API Support
- MS RFC 135: MapServer 8.0 Config file
- MS RFC 136: Rename shp2img to map2img
- MS RFC 137: Native FlatGeobuf support
- MS RFC 138: Reference SLD files in Mapfiles