Introduction MapDesk is a UMN MapServer based map editor and viewer. The built-in map file editor supports syntax highlighting, context-sensitive help and a preview function. Screenshot Features Standalone application, no need of UMN MapServer CGI Built-in map file editor Built-in viewer with map file preview, zoom, pan, etc. Preview of the legend Platform-independent architecture Download You can download the fully functional MapDesk binaries, now in the version 0.7.0: Debian package RPM package Windows ZIP file (Unzip and start mapdesk. Read on

SDE Raster support These enhancements to Mapserver 4.2.0 add support for SDE raster layers. A function msSDELayerQueryByAttributes for fast queries on SDE layers is also included. Usage: CONNECTIONTYPE sde CONNECTION "mapserver.gis.gr.ch,port:5151,'',username,password" TYPE raster DATA "KONTEXT.LANDESKARTE_50_KOMBINIERT.IMAGE,SHAPE" The connection has the following arguments: server,instance,database,username,password The work was kindly sponsored by the GIS-Kompetenzzentrum of Graubünden, Switzerland. SDE Query speedup This patch against Mapserver 4.2 activates the call of msSDELayerQueryByAttributes. --- ms-4.2.3.orig/mapquery.c 2004-09-29 09:47:26.000000000 +0200 +++ . Read on

My patch to Dobrica Pavlinusic’s mysql2pgsql has been integrated. The script now lives here. Read on

Here is a webalizer package compiled for Debian woody i386 compatible systems and linked against the libgd2 library from AgreomaTIC. The reason why I had to recompile webalizer is that woody’s webalizer links against libgd2 and versions 1.0.12 of libpng2. The “new” libgd2 libray from AgreomaTIC links against libpng12-0 version 1.2.5.0-4 which will make the linker become all uneasy and spit out errors like the following: libpng warning: Application was compiled with png. Read on

Here is the fpm package compiled for Debian woody i386 compatible systems. Versions for other Debian releases can be found here. And here’s the diff. Please read the changelog entry for the backport contained inside the package in changelog.Debian.gz before installing - the package contains patches to make group sharing of password files possible. Enjoy! Tomas Pospisek Read on