SharpMap v0.9 released

SharpMap v0.9 is now uploaded to the CodePlex Workspace.

Download it here.

Thanks to everyone who has supported the development of SharpMap. We have come a long way since the previous release candidate.

Unfortunately this also marks the end of my involvement with SharpMap. In a months time I'm moving from Copenhagen to California to start on a new and exciting GIS developer job. Hopefully more on that later...

Microsoft SQL Server Spatial project

Inspired by my petty shot at making SQL Server spatial, Ricardo Stuven has been working the new CLR in SQL Server 2005 and started adding almost all basic spatial functions, and implemented some aggregates, stored procedures and table-valued functions in SQL Server. He even started an Open Source project where you can check it out (yet another open source .NET GIS project we can add to the .NET tribe... ;-))

Read his comments on his approach, including query examples and a list of features which he posted in an update on the SharpMap forum today.