MapWindow5

From MapWindow GIS

What Is MapWindow 5.x ?

MapWindow 5.x, also known as MapWindow Web was the brain child of Chris Michaelis, who is still employed part time with MapWindow and spends most of his energy working on bugs that show up as apart of the 4.x library. The 4.x library is powered by the 2D, GDI driven C++ ActiveX control that is a COM object and supports a tremendous number of software development libraries. The 5.0 tools were the first to depart from using an ActiveX control with the interest of being fully dot net. It uses GDI+, which is slower as a rendering tool, but much more functional in other dot-net achitectures, like ASP. MapWindow 5.x takes advantage of the GDAL libraries for raster handling, OGR libraries for vector handling and is designed around the idea of creating a platform that can provide ASP pages with the power of GDAL and OGR. The 5.0 tools are devided into separate libraries, including MapWindow.Data, MapWindow.View, MapWindow.Net etc. MapWindow.Data can be used independantly, but the other libraries depend on MapWindow.Data, and will require a reference to it in order to pass in arguments that are strongly typed as MapWindow.Data members.