MapProxy

New MapProxy 1.3.0 release

We are ready to announce the release of MapProxy 1.3.0. It contains major and minor improvements.

The latest release is available at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MapProxy

To upgrade within you virtualenv:

$ pip install --upgrade --no-deps MapProxy

Updated documentation is available at: http://mapproxy.org/docs/1.3.0/

New features

Some noteworthy improvements since 1.2.0 are:

RESTful WMTS

The MapProxy WMTS now also supports the RESTful API. This service also supports custom URL templates for your service.

See WMTS configuration.

CouchDB cache backend

You can now use a CouchDB as a backend for tile caches. Each cache gets stored into a separate database and you can configure the layout of the URLs of each tile. You can also add additional metadata for each tile.

See CouchDB configuration.

mapproxy-util serve-multiapp-develop tool

The new command is similar to serve-develop but it starts a MultiMapProxy instance.

See mapproxy-util documentation.

Other features

• Mapnik source now supports Mapnik 2.

• You can limit the maximum WMS response size in pixels with max_output_pixels.

• You can configure additional SRS for which MapProxy should add bounding boxes to the WMS capabilities with the new wms.bbox_srs option.

Changelog

For a complete list of changes see: http://bitbucket.org/olt/mapproxy/src/1.3.0/CHANGES.txt

New MapProxy 1.2.0 release

The 1.2.0 release contained a bug with the watermark configuration. There is already a 1.2.1 release available.

We are finally ready to announce the release of MapProxy 1.2.0. It contains major and minor improvements.

The latest release is available at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MapProxy

To upgrade within you virtualenv:

$ pip install --upgrade --no-deps MapProxy

Updated documentation is available at: http://mapproxy.org/docs/1.2.0/

New features

Some noteworthy improvements since 1.1.0 are:

Cache

You can use the MBTiles format for new caches and you can load existing MBTiles cache files.

The directory layout for file based caches is now configurable and you can choose a TMS compatible layout besides the default TileCache compatible one.

See cache configuration.

mapproxy-util scales tool

The new mapproxy-util scales tool helps to convert between scales and resolutions.

See mapproxy-util documentation.

Other features

• Mapnik source now supports the selection of single layers.

• You can use MultiMapProxy without Paste Deploy.

Changelog

For a more complete list see: http://bitbucket.org/olt/mapproxy/src/1.2.0/CHANGES.txt

New MapProxy 1.1.1 release

There is a new bug fix release of MapProxy.

The 1.1.1 release fixes:

• add back transparent option for mapnik/tile sources (in addition to image.transparent)
• keep alpha channel when handling image.transparent_color
• fixed combining of multiple WMS layers with transparent_color
• fixed header parsing for MapServer CGI source

The latest release is available at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MapProxy

To update within you virtualenv:

$ pip install --upgrade --no-deps MapProxy

New MapProxy 1.1.0 release

We are finally ready to announce the release of MapProxy 1.1.0. It contains lots of major and minor improvements.

The latest release is available at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MapProxy

To update within you virtualenv:

$ pip install --upgrade --no-deps MapProxy

Updated documentation is available at: http://mapproxy.org/docs/1.1.0/

MapProxy 1.1.0 is the first version that is released under the Apache Software License 2.0. This replaces the old GNU AGPL License terms with a more open and liberal license.

New features

Some noteworthy improvements since 1.0.0 are:

New sources

There are two new sources that directly integrate Mapserver and Mapnik into MapProxy. There is no need to setup an extra WMS server for these map services.

See MapServer source and Mapnik source documentation.

The tile source was extended by the arcgiscache_path and bbox parameters. arcgiscache_path allows the integration of existing ArcGIS tile caches (L09/R05397fb1/C0012d687) and the bbox parameter is useful for WMS-C services that expect a fixed parameter order.

See tile source documentation.

Tagged WMS Sources

You can tag WMS source names with layer names. It is no longer required to specify a WMS source multiple times, for each layer combination you use. You can now define a WMS once without any layers and then tag the source name with the layers you need.

sources:
 wms1:
  type: wms
  req:
    url: http://example.org/service?

caches:
 mycache1:
  sources: ['wms1:lyr1,lyr2']
  grids: [mygrid]
 mycache2:
  sources: ['wms1:lyr3,lyr4']
  grids: [mygrid]

See WMS documentation.

Configurable Image Formats

Image formats are now much more flexible. You can now create custom image formats and modify them for each source or cache individually. The configuration of paletted PNGs or the JPEG quality is no longer a global option.

See image options.

There is now also support for integer images, e.g. for DEMs.

WMTS

There is first support for the OGC WMTS standard. It implements KVP requests and can be used with existing caches.

See WMTS service documentation.

Improved logging

The logging was improved and unified. System information is now logged at mapproxy.system, configuration errors at mapproxy.config and all source errors under mapproxy.source.wms, etc.

All requests that MapProxy makes are now logged to mapproxy.source.request. The request log format changed and it now contains the complete URL (easy to copy&paste), the size and the duration of the request. The log contains also requests to non-HTTP sources like Mapnik or Mapserver.

See deployment documentation.

Improved configuration loading

The configuration loading is now more robust. You shouldn't see any stack traces when your configuration contains any syntax errors. The MapProxy and the seed configurations are now validated and you should see detailed information about missing or unknown options.

Cache location

The default location of the cache will change with the next release (1.2). The current default is ../var/cache_dir which is appropriate for the configuration from paster create, but not for the configuration from mapproxy-util create (see below). You should configure globals.cache.base_dir with your cache directory. Until then you will get a FutureWarning during startup.

New mapproxy-util command line tool

There is a new mapproxy-util command that replaces the paster command for running the development server. You can now start a test server with:

mapproxy-util serve-develop mapproxy.yaml

Paster (PasteDeploy/PasteScript) is no longer a requirement, but it is still supported.

See deployment documentation.

Changelog

For a more complete list see: http://bitbucket.org/olt/mapproxy/src/1.1.0/CHANGES.txt

New MapProxy 1.0.0 release

We are finally ready to announce the release of MapProxy 1.0.0. It contains lots of major and minor improvements.

The latest release is available at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MapProxy

To update within you virtualenv:

$ pip install -U --no-deps MapProxy

Updated documentation is available at: http://mapproxy.org/docs/1.0.0/

Upgrade notes

A bug, introduced in a previous release, prevented that the tile locks get removed. This issue is solved since 1.0.0b2 and MapProxy will remove existing lock files on the first access to the cache. This might take a while if the directory already contains a lot of lock files (probably thousands and more).

We suggest that you remove the complete lock directories by hand before upgrading:

rm -r cache_dir/*/tile_locks

New features

Some noteworthy improvements are:

mapproxy-seed

mapproxy-seed got a new, flexible configuration format (the old format is still supported). You can now define multiple seed and cleanup tasks and call each separately from the command line interface (--seed and --cleanup options).

It is now possible to reseed specific areas without triggering any cleanup.

There are also two new --summary and --interactive options that help to understand what the seed tool will do.

See: http://mapproxy.org/docs/1.0.0/seed.html

FeatureInfo XSL transformations

MapProxy now supports content aware merging of multiple HTML/XML feature responses and it supports XSL transformations. See:
http://mapproxy.org/docs/1.0.0/configuration_examples.html#featureinformation

Image manipulation

You can now make non-transparent layers transparent. Either with an opacity value, with blends the layer over the others, or with a color value that should be converted to transparent. See: http://mapproxy.org/docs/1.0.0/sources.html#image-transparent-color

Authentication

There is a new powerful authentication interface. See: http://mapproxy.org/docs/1.0.0/auth.html

Changelog

For a more complete list see: http://bitbucket.org/olt/mapproxy/src/1.0.0/CHANGES.txt

Final note

We also like to use this announcement to say thank you to the ever growing community. To everyone that helped funding the many new features and to everyone that offered help, gave feedback or talked/blogged/tweeted about MapProxy.

Thank you!