OSGeo is planning to participate in the 2007 Google Summer of Code. This page will be used to coordinate potential activities for the MapGuide Open Source project.

Potential Projects

Web Studio Enhancements

[Mentor: Paul Spencer]

This project entails working with AJAX techniques to make a number of improvements to MapGuide Web Studio, including adding support for all FDO providers (generically), color selection tools, map thematic generation logic and user interface improvements, etc.

MapGuide and Google Web Toolkit

[Mentor: Simon Pelicon (Haris Kurtagic)]

Develop Google Web Toolkit Widget for displaying maps from MapGuide server. Widget will display maps and allow zooming, paning,...
Main idea of widget is to allow easy way to include maps from MapGuide server in GWT applications.

SWIG Enhancements for Java

[Mentor: Trevor Wekel]

It has been identified that while MapGuide's Java support is good, there are some areas where the current presentation of the APIs makes it hard to work with for Java developers. We would like to enhance the way SWIG generates the Java API wrappers. See Ticket #9 and this email : ​http://www.nabble.com/RE%3A-RE%3A--mapguide-users-GoodDevelopment-Environment-for-MGOS-p9364766s16610.html

REST/XML-RPC/SOAP Web Services

[Mentor: Bruce Dechant]

The MapGuide Server exposes a rich set of APIs querying and manipulating geospatial data, plotting and rendering maps, etc. This project entails exposing the MapGuide Service APIs as Web Services via standard protocols like REST, XML-RPC, or SOAP.

Today quite a few applications end up having to write their own web services interfaces around the basic MapGuide services. Developing these in the MapGuide Core would allow us to reduce the amount of effort it takes to integrate MapGuide into enterprise applications.

As well as the enterprise, we need to target the rapidly growing neogeography population. This will be accomplished by supporting a REST-based interface, and output formats like JSON and XML where appropriate.

PHP Gateway Scripts

[Mentor: Jason Birch]

TileMapService Publishing

The ​TMS Specification provides a well documented method for sharing pyramid-based map tile caches between multiple mapping applications. This scales to public use much better than WMS, and allows extension of MapGuide's internal tile caching service to external applications.

This component of the project would involve the development of a PHP "gateway" script that exposes a MapGuide tile cache as a TMS service.

GeoRSS Publishing

Adoption of ​GeoRSS as a simple method of sharing spatial information is growing rapidly. There are several compelling use cases for this. At the municipal level, it would be desirable to generate feeds of spatially related information such as recent fire calls, approved building permits, and road closures.

This component of the project would involve the development of a PHP "gateway" script that allows the end user to configure the Geometry, Name, Description, and Modified Date from an existing feature source, and present this as a GeoRSS feed in any of Atom 1.0, RSS 1.0, and RSS 2.0 formats, leveraging the GeoRSS Simple and GML profiles.