Introduction

I'd been delaying announcing this project until it was "ready", but I've come to realise that day is never going to happen. So here it is, not fully baked but still serviceable, I hope!

The ArcMap Mapbook Project is an open source and volunteer effort to extend, enhance, and fix the bugs in the developer sample. It in no way is intended to supplant or take over the excellent work Larry Young has been doing with mapbook, both in terms of development and support. As a matter of fact, I hope the infrastructure the project provides -- version control, release packages, and wiki docs with public commenting -- actually makes Larry's load lighter. If it doesn't do that, then in my opinion the project has failed. :)

I personally am not a developer, simply an end user with a little bit of hackability skills who is interested in helping to make Mapbook a better tool. I hope this project contributes to that aim.

-matt wilkie

What's Where

Browse the Docs folder.

Have a suggestion or bug report? See Issues

As the user base here is still tiny if you're looking for help it is a good idea to look through the ESRI Support Site, especially the desktop forums, as most people will post there first -- understandably enough!

Trunk and Branches

Many coming here are new to source code control in general, and subversion in particular, which is what is used here. The download packages are generally built from the trunk -- the main distribution, a minimally altered DS Mapbook -- while some of the more interesting work like NW Mapbook and Chase's Customized Mapbook are in the branches.

At this time if you want to use this extra functionality you'll need to install a branch and not the trunk. Over time I hope we can merge the best of the branches with the mainline, which will require the aid of real developers and not wannabe programmers like matt! In the meantime read the checkout instructions and install you're favourite svn client. I find TortoiseSVN in particular very easy to use.