MapGuide 4.0.0 Preview 1 Release Notes

MapGuide Open Source 4.0.0 Preview 1 is now available.

Downloads

NOTE: As of MapGuide Open Source 4.0, 32-bit Windows builds are no longer provided and SHA-1 checksums are provided for all binary aritfacts listed

Download	Size	SHA-1
Windows
​64-bit Windows Installer	127,267,355 bytes	af7f84176fe08b0fbf2572ea67f5024a66973c00
​64-bit Windows InstantSetup bundle	105,607,552 bytes	1526eaf2012b9a372c986446e7c4e2f7a639de74

New Features in 4.0 Preview 1

NOTE: 4.0 Preview 1 is a snapshot of the current work in progress and is not indicative of what the 4.0 final release may look like

• Massive tile set improvements
  • Support for UTFGrid as tile output format ​MapGuide RFC 159
  • ​MapGuide RFC 170
    • Support for meta-tile generation
    • Support for a localized version of the (previously serverconfig.ini global) TileExtentOffset setting
  • ​MapGuide RFC 173
    • Support for "retina" (aka. hi-dpi) tile generation
    • Removed tile set restrictions for MgMap creation

• WFS/WMS improvements
  • Support for GeoJSON output in WFS GetFeature and WMS GetFeatureInfo ​MapGuide RFC 163
    • Geometry output is configurable through resource metadata
  • Support for hit count mode (resultType=hits) for WFS GetFeature ​MapGuide RFC 175

• New APIs
  • Geometry simplification APIs ​MapGuide RFC 153
  • Creating MgMap instances with initial display parameters ​MapGuide RFC 157
  • "Clean and simplified" JSON output in mapagent ​MapGuide RFC 158
    • mapagent operations that return feature data is outputted as GeoJSON under this mode
  • Geo-processing operations for mapagent ​MapGuide RFC 161
  • Batch coordinate transformation support in mapagent and transformation support for geometry data ​MapGuide RFC 162
  • New MgMap properties to describe newly surfaced tile set properties introduced with MapGuide RFC 173

• Other:
  • New mgserver commands for package loading and password setting ​MapGuide RFC 160
  • GD Renderer support has been removed ​MapGuide RFC 174

Maestro Authoring Known Issues

The current release of MapGuide Maestro (6.0m10) has some known issues when connecting to a 4.0 preview 1 server. These issues will be addressed with the next milestone release.

• Local map previews will fail. (​https://github.com/jumpinjackie/mapguide-maestro/issues/78)
  • Workaround: Use the browser-based resource preview until the next milestone release.
• Map Definition editor UI still assumes tileset linkage restrictions that were lifted with RFC 173 (​https://github.com/jumpinjackie/mapguide-maestro/issues/75)
  • Workaround: Edit the Map Definition XML directly

FDO Notes

MGOS 4.0.0 Preview 1 is built against FDO trunk (r7843)

Due to unavailable build resources (the build maintainer does not have access to the ESRI SDK), this release does not include the ArcSDE FDO provider

FDO trunk (r7843) is near identical to FDO 4.1 in terms of functionality with the following changes:

• Improved WFS services support for WFS FDO provider

Installer notes

You cannot use the windows installer to in-place upgrade an existing MapGuide Open Source 3.1.x or older installation. Only one MapGuide installation (via the Windows installer) can exist on any given machine. Use the InstantSetup bundle if side-by-side installs are required. Be sure to back up any data and applications before carrying out the new installation.

Before upgrading, it is recommended that you take a backup of your existing repository (whether that is through creating MGP packages with the MapGuide Site Administrator or using the provided repository backup tools/scripts)

Sample Data

• ​Sheboygan.mgp
  • Size: 13,604,700 bytes
  • md5: 351b21e2c432b493fe2f073d7ab10205

Extra Files

Due to size constraints, the binary packages for this release of MapGuide omit the following CS-Map data files:

• USA:
  • NSRS 2007/2011 datum shift files
  • 1996/1999/2003 Geoid height data files
• Australia:
  • GDA 2020 datum shift files

These extra files are available for download as a separate 7-zip archive:

• ​Dictionaries_Extra.7z
  • Size: 230,627,172 bytes
  • SHA-1: 798b189f88a2d50c71f1d01cfdcdeac9939ccb11

To install these files, extract the contents into your Dictionaries folder of your CS-Map installation. On Windows, this would normally be:

• C:\Program Files\OSGeo\MapGuide\CS-Map\Dictionaries

Restart your MapGuide Server after extracting the files.

Unless you work with data in one or more coordinate systems that involves one of the above datums, you do not need these files.

Windows Compatibility

OS	32-bit	64-bit
Windows 10	Yes+	Yes
Windows Vista	Maybe+	Maybe+
Windows 7	Yes	Yes
Windows Server 2008	Yes+	Yes+
Windows Server 2008 R2	N/A	Yes
Windows 8	Yes1	Yes1
Windows Server 2012	N/A	Yes1
Windows Server 2016	N/A	Yes
Windows 8.1	Maybe1	Maybe1

Known Issues

Please report any issues you find.