Roadmap

Map­board GIS is an early-stage pro­ject and we are con­stantly adding new fea­tures. Head to the Is­sue Tracker to re­quest a new fea­ture or im­prove­ment.

If you’ve got a great idea and a plan to im­ple­ment it, we can dis­cuss ways to in­te­grate your ef­fort into the ap­pli­ca­tion’s code­base. Feel free to con­tact us di­rectly about this or any­thing else.

Po­ten­tial up­com­ing fea­tures

• A layer for text notes and schematic draw­ings on the map
• Abil­ity to cap­ture and edit sam­ple lo­ca­tions
  This is a po­ten­tial in­te­gra­tion point with other apps.
• Some sort of GeoPDF basemap sup­port
• A quicker on­board topol­ogy en­gine
• Some level of sup­port for the GeoPack­age for­mat, which is sim­i­lar to the Spa­tialite for­mat that cur­rently dri­ves the map

Ed­u­ca­tion-fo­cused fea­tures

• A pro­ject ini­tial­iza­tion user in­ter­face that guides the user to­wards ap­pro­pri­ate map pro­jec­tions
• Modes to pre­de­fine map area and al­lowed scale range for dig­i­tiz­ing
• A “sim­ple” user-in­ter­face mode that hides fea­tures for map pro­duc­tion

In­te­gra­tions with other sys­tems

• Im­proved map­ping sym­bol­ogy (e.g. pat­terns)
• Shar­ing data be­tween the Spa­tialite (of­fline) and Post­GIS (teth­ered) modes, po­ten­tially with change rec­on­cil­i­a­tion al­go­rithms.
• Macros­trat ge­o­logic maps over­lay