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MapGuide Open Source 2.0.2 Released and LiveCD
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From their announcement mailing list, "The MapGuide Open Source project team is pleased to make MapGuide Open Source 2.0.2 available. This release contains support for Firefox 3, bug fixes, rendering fixes and updated FDO DLLs. For the complete list of fixes please see the release notes ". They also released a LiveCD: "Autodesk and Camptocamp have created this LiveCD to ease your first steps with MapGuide Open Source. When you boot your computer with this CD you get a working MapGuide Open Source server, complete with the MapGuide Maestro authoring tool, code samples, and demo datasets.
To download the CD, go to the Related Links page."
Recent coverage in the geoblogs includes Autodesk's Geoff Zeiss on MapGuide at Oracle Open World.
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Industry: MapGuide Open Source 2.0.1 Released
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The Between the Poles blog informs us about this release. From their summary : "The MapGuide Open Source Project Team are pleased to announce the release of MapGuide Open Source 2.0.1.
This release includes support for FDO 3.3.1 and bug fixes since 2.0.0. For the complete list please see MapGuide Open Source 2.0.1 Release Notes."
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Not major, but pretty useful for those seeking MapGuide Open Source information: the MapGuide Central. Via this blog.
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The dont adjust your mind blog informs us Fusion 1.1.0 has been released.
This is important news for the MapGuide Open Source community and users.
From the announcement: "Fusion is a web-mapping application development framework for MapGuide OS
and MapServer built primarily in JavaScript. It allows non-spatial web
developers to build rich mapping applications quickly and easily. Using
widgets, developers are able to add, remove, or modify functionality using
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browser plug-ins and works in all the major browsers on Windows, Mac, and
Linux." The release notes, 60+ new features and bugs squashed, can be found here.
We mentioned Fusion before, see related stories below.
MapGuide Open Source 2.0.2 Released and LiveCD
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