OracleAS  MapViewer & Map Builder 10.1.3.1 Production Release


Contents 
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data/mvdemo_10131.zip   
    demo dataset specifically prepared for this release

docs/mapviewer_10131_ug.pdf  
    updated MapViewer User's Guide

software/mapviewer/mapviewer.ear  
    The main MapViewer EAR file

software/mapbuilder/mapbuilder_10131.zip
    The new Map Builder desktop application

software/qs/mv10131_qs.zip
    The MapViewer Quick Start kit

software/sqlmvclient/sqlmvclient14.zip
    The MapViewer PL/SQL API support library compiled for database 
    JVM 1.4.



What's new with this release:
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- Oracle Maps

  Oracle Maps is a new feature of MapViewer. It provides high
performance base map tile caching, dynamic and interactive Features
Of Interest based on database queries, and an open and powerful
JavaScript API. It fully utlizes AJAX and existing MapViewer functions
to provide a uniquely powerful web 2.0 Internet mapping experience.


- Map Builder Tool

Map Builder is a standalone graphical tool for creating and editing
styles, themes, and base maps. It replaces the Map Definition Utility
that was provided in previous releases. MapBuilder also  provides
WYSIWYG preview of most Spatial data/models. Also added support for new
features such as custom tags on predefined themes, text placement
hints for TEXT style.

- Enhanced text labeling

      MapViewer can now break a long text label into multiple
lines on the map, when applying a TEXT style that has this option
turned on.

      New placements and alignment hints can be specified for a text
style for use with oriented points or for labeling a line string
feature (text along a path).

      A text style can now be specified as sticky, which means that
any feature that uses it as a label style will always have its text
label drawn on a map.  Note also that MapViewer can now render
streets in cased (European) style.

      MapViewer now supports bidirectional language text labeling, to
accommodate text in languages with right-to-left text flow, such as
 Arabic and Hebrew.


- PL/SQL API: SDO_MVCLIENT Package

MapViewer now has a PL/SQL application programming interface (API).

- New Advanced Style Types: Dot Density, Bar Chart, Collection

- TrueType Font Symbol Support

MapViewer can now manage TrueType font files, and turn any symbol
in a TrueType font into a MapViewer marker.

- Custom (External) Attribute Data Provider Support

MapViewer now supports middle-tier joins of external attribute data
(such as sales) with geometries stored in Oracle Spatial, providing
even more thematic mapping possibilities. This feature now also
works with Oracle Maps' JavaScript API.

- Map Scale Bars

MapViewer now enables you to provide easy to use, configurable scale
bars on maps.

- Theme-Wide Transparency

Any theme, even an external WMS layer, can now have a specified
transparency when a map is rendered.

- Embedded Geometries and Label Text

MapViewer now supports geometries and label text that are embedded fields
inside user-defined Oracle SQL object types.

- WMS Service Enhancements

MapViewer now supports a customizable SDO to EPSG SRID mapping table
(file). This enables the WMS user to use EPSG SRIDs when interacting
with MapViewer's WMS service.

- Image Processing Operations with GeoRaster Themes

MapViewer now supports image processing operations on GeoRaster themes
in a map request.

- Client-Side Style Creation in Java API

When developing a MapViewer application, you can now create dynamic
styles on the client side and add them to the map request using one
method: MapViewer.addStyle(name, StyleModel)




Main Bugs fixed since 10.1.2.0.2:
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5040927 - bad legend for Variable marker styles
4907082 - MapViewer not reading SRID def from correct data source
4879655 - Exception when multiple WMS themes with style element are present
4739596 - MapViewer root context must be "/mapviewer" when deploying
4733093 - MapViewer WMS theme always sends request with uppercase "GETMAP" 
4683859 - Dynamically added style not always cleared after a request
4955870 - cannot display text inside a marker for Point features
4682196 - cannot properly render collection-type topology features
2824588 - cannot properly display geodetic polygons that span the 180
          meridian


Finally, note that Java version 1.5 or later is required to run MapViewer
and MapBuilder.