Roadmap - sindizzy/DSW GitHub Wiki
Immediate Goals
Goals for 1.5 are generally related to enhanced stability (list bug numbers here that we should target):
- Issue 23782 - GDAL Extension and GeoTiff files error
- Issue 23848 - Feature selection
Version 1.4 was released in November 2012.
Seeking Functionality
In Fall 2010, Anderson Sandes did a survey of over 300 GIS professionals in an effort to assess the relative importance of selected GIS functionality. The results of his survey are currently in preparation for publication in a GIS journal. Results indicate the following ranking of GIS functionality (with average "importance rating" in parentheses.):
(1) view vector data: 6.51, (2) view attribute data: 6.48, (3) display data on map: 6.42, (4) support different projections and coordinates systems: 6.40, (5) edit attribute data: 6.35, (6) save edited attribute data: 6.34, (7) edit vector data: 6.32, (8) save edited vector data: 6.32, (9) view raster data: 6.14, (10) perform basic analyses (e.g. clip features and create buffers): 6.06, (11) connect to databases: 5.94, (12) perform joins and spatial joins: 5.91, (13) allow printing of maps: 5.9, (14) allow customization of map symbology: 5.80, (15) perform georeferencing: 5.76, (16) perform advanced analyses (e.g. density, interpolation): 5.5, (17) support web-based data sources (e.g. support conversion to KML format and create web mapping services: 5.29, (18) perform statistic analyses (e.g. analyses of patterns and clusters): 5.10, (19) save edited raster data: 5.08, (20) edit raster data: 4.8, and (21) geocode: 4.78.
The following table lists each of these categories of functionality together with specific DotSpatial details and tasks, in the context of a road map for releases of the DotSpatial library.
| Feature/Functionality | Associated Issue(s) | Version | Version | Version | Version | Version |
| 0.7 1 Oct 2010 |
0.8 31 Jan 2011 |
0.9 31 Mar 2011 |
1.0 13 June 2011 |
1.1 | ||
| Read and Write Vector Data | ||||||
| - Shapefiles (Read/Write) | X | X | X | X | ||
| - WFS (Read) | X | |||||
| - ESRI Personal Geodatabase (Read/Write) |
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| - Other | ||||||
| Read and Write Raster Data | ||||||
| - Binary Grid, BGD (Read/Write) | X | X | X | X | ||
| - GeoTIFF (Read/Write) | X | |||||
| - ESRI Coverage (Read) | ||||||
| - Web Coverage Service, WCS (Read) | X | |||||
| - NetCDF (Read/Write) | X | |||||
| Map Display and Interaction | ||||||
| - Symbology | X | X | X | X | ||
| - Zoom and Pan Navigation | X | X | X | X | ||
| - Layer Management | 250 | X | X | X | X | |
| - Complex Symbology | X | X | X | X | ||
| Labeling | ||||||
| - Simple Feature labeling | X | |||||
| - Label Rotation Based on a Feature Attribute | 246 | |||||
| Attribute Tables | ||||||
| - DBF (shapefile) (Read/Write) | ||||||
| - ODBC Database Connection (Read/Write) | 206 | |||||
| Topology and Topological Analyses | X | X | X | X | ||
| - NTS integration | X | X | X | X | ||
| - Topological analyses | X | X | X | |||
| Plugins/Extensions | X | X | X | |||
| - GPS | X | X | X | |||
| - Model Builder and tools | X | X | X | |||
| - GPS Integration | X | X | X | |||
| - Improved Feature/Raster/Image Identifier | 249 | X | ||||
| X | ||||||
| Projections | ||||||
| - Support all MW4 Projections and better Projection info | 194, 247, 245 | |||||
| Project Management | ||||||
| - Support all MW4 Project Files and Symbology Files | ||||||
| - DotSpatial Project files (dspx) | ||||||
| Documentation | ||||||
| - End user/GUI documentation | ||||||
| - Programmer documentation | ||||||
| - Demonstration Code | ||||||