What's new in MapWindow v4.8 by Paul Meems

What's new in MapWindow v4.8

Welcome
Paul Meems
● TopX Geo-ICT
● Started in 2003
● User → developer →
release manager

International Open Source GIS Conference 2012, Velp - The Netherlands 25-28 June 2012


The history of MapWindow
History ● 2007 - MapWindow 4.3
● 2000 - TMDL Toolkit ● 2008 - 200k downloads, MW 4.4 + 4.5
● 2001 - MapWindow 1.0 ● 2009 - MapWindow 4.6 + 4.7
● 2002 - MapWindow 2.0 ● 2010 - MapWindow 4.8RC1 + Orlando
● 2003 - MapWindow 3.0 ● 2011 – 400k downloads, MW 4.8RC2 +
San Diego
● 2004 - source code to the public domain ● 2012 – moved to CodePlex: 21k downloads,
● 2005 - MapWindow 4.0 + BASSINS MW 4.8SR (v4.8.6), Velp

● 2006 - 10,000 download mark
● 2013 – MapWindow v4.9 ??



The new features of MapWindow
● Modified GUI
● Symbology
● Geo-spatial processing
● New table editor
● Projections
● Documentation
● Sneak preview v4.9



Modified GUI



Symbology
New user experience



Symbology
Theme colors

Fill styles

Gradient Textures Hatching



Symbology
Categories



Symbology
Labels

Expression



Symbology
Labels

Font Frame



Symbology
Labels

Position Visibility



Symbology
Labels

Styles



Symbology
Charts



Symbology
Charts

Fields Size and style



Symbology
Charts

Values Position



Symbology
Visibility expression

Expression Query builder



Symbology
Using expression



Symbology
Mode



Symbology
Label mover

Default After moving



Symbology
.mwsymb file

● Saving symbology and labels
● Manged by the symbology
manager
● Easy switching between
different styles



Symbology
Symbology manager



Geo-spatial processing tools
Toolbox




Intersection Union

Symmetric difference Difference



Aggregate shapes (All or by field)



Buffer shapes



Dissolve by attribute



Explode shapes



Export selection



Merge shapefiles



Sort shapefile
● Useful for labeling
● Connecting to external data

Unsorted Sorted by population



Spatial query



General improvements
● Improved internal OCX structure
● Better memory handling
● MapWinGIS enhancements
● Multi-threading



Updated plug-ins
Print Layout



Updated plug-ins
Tiles

OpenStreetMap ArcGIS Online



New plug-ins
New Table editor



New plug-ins
Projection



New plug-ins
Projection
● Based on GDAL/Proj4
● Using EPSG codes
● Dialects
● Favorites



Documentation
http://www.mapwindow.org/documentation/mapwingis4.8/
Generated using Doxygen



Documentation



Peak in the future: MW 4.9
● Redesign of the GUI
● More reusable blocks:
● MapWindow.Layers
● MapWindow.Utils
● MapWindow.Tools
● MapWindow.Icons, etc.
● Geo-spatial databases (PostGIS, Oracle, etc.)
● WMS, WFS, TMS
● New Shapefile editor
● .NET v4



New tiling process



New tiling process
● In the OCX → Usable in custom applications
● On the fly reprojection
● Pre-fetching of tiles
● SQLite data store
● Geocoder
● Custom providers (Dutch Georegister)
● Super fast



Questions?



Websites for more info:
● www.mapwindow.org

● www.mapwindow.nl

● mapwindow4.codeplex.com

● mapwingis.codeplex.com

● www.topx-group.nl/gis


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