MapWindow 6.0 (Orlando)

Project Description
MapWindow 6 Alpha Desktop GIS is a lightweight open source geographic information system (GIS) built using C# and the open source DotSpatial library (see DotSpatial on CodePlex.com). MapWindow 6 Alpha Desktop GIS is intended to be a complete implementation of DotSpatial and supports all DotSpatial plugins.

Mercurial

This project is set up using Mercurial. This is a relatively new versioning control system that allows extremely rapid diff checks, commits and advertises itself as handling push and pull operations much more smoothly.
Mercurial Video Tutorial
http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/
http://visualhg.codeplex.com/

Why MapWindow 6?

This is asked frequently and so I thought I would add some bullet points right to the home page on this topic.

• Advantages over MapWindow 4.x
  • Fully .Net (no COM registration or dll hell)
  • Works on Mac or Linux (using Mono)
  • Vastly extended symbology set
    • Stacks of Symbols
    • Schemes based on attributes
    • Point decorations
    • Symbols from scalable system fonts
  • Object Oriented Code
    • Perform overlays, intersections, directly with features.
    • FeatureSet.DataTable is a System.Data.DataTable.
    • OGC Geometries
  • Comprehensive Plug-in Model
    • Plug-in interfaces have events like normal objects
    • Interfaces are complete, so if you can do it with a class, you can do it with an interface.
    • Control virtually everything directly through the plug-in interface
  • Components
    • All components provided through the MapWindow.dll
    • Custom GIS can be built from components in the designer (No code necessary)
    • Even the Plug-in capability is in the ApplicationManager

• About the same
  • Drawing performance
  • Loading performance

• Disadvantages
  • Can't be used in Microsoft Access, VB6.0 or other pre-.Net systems. (Yet)
    • (requires a COM wrapper to be created, which we can do later.)
  • OGR/FDO not supported (Yet)
    • (requires a data provider plugin to be written to translate)
  • Big rasters/grids (> 8000x8000) fail to load or use unconventional native formats
    • (requires finishing img(HFA) support for native, pyramidal img files)
  • Rudimentary feature editing
    • (requires some extra editing tools to be added to the shape editor)
  • Still in beta (MW4 is probably more stable and fixed and with fewer bugs)

High Speed Video Demos

Standard Architecture Demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAJKSEzjmO4
Double Map Layout http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrl8e66sEXE

Use MapWindow6.exe as a Desktop GIS for Vectors, Rasters and Images

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Extensible Toolbox and Modeling Environment

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Print Layouts

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Design your Own GIS in Minutes from Components!

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This site is specifically for the MapWindow 6 C# core programming effort. If you have any questions on how to use MapWindow 6 either as a developer or as an end user, please go to http://www.mapwindow.org.