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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=828341718-10042006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I've been playing with the raster provider this morning and
am happy to report that two quick tests worked fine and performance seems to be
very good. I loaded up a 10 MB ECW and a 250 MB MrSID. The
flexibility of transparent shaded polygon fills really shows over raster, it's
very nice. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=828341718-10042006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>My only complaint is the managed data structure of the
repository. I had to load my MrSID which already resides somewhere else on
that same drive and is accessed by other apps (like an older MapGuide 6.5
app). Now I have redundant data. Are there any plans to allow
"connections" to raster data stored in other physical locations? I have
some clients that have many gigabytes of imagery used in their existing MapGuide
applications and I see having to load the data as a potential
problem.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Tahoma size=1>Andy Morsell, P.E.</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Tahoma size=1>Spatial Integrators,
Inc.</FONT></SPAN> <BR><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Tahoma size=1><A
href="http://www.SpatialGIS.com">http://www.SpatialGIS.com</A></FONT></SPAN>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Robert Bray
[mailto:robert.bray@autodesk.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 10, 2006 9:04
AM<BR><B>To:</B> users@mapguide.osgeo.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [mapguide-users]
Additional FDO Provider Previews<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><A name=OLE_LINK1><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">All,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></A></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Previews of the
additional FDO Providers for ArcSDE, MySQL, ODBC, WMS, WFS, and Raster Files
have now been posted for the Windows platform only at this point. You can
download individual providers from:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><A
href="https://mapguide.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=35&expandFolder=35&folderID=35"><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">https://mapguide.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=35&expandFolder=35&folderID=35</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Note that the included
Raster Provider is the one that will be shipped with the commercial MapGuide
offering. If you only intend to use the Open Source version then Franks GDAL
Provider is the one you will want to use long term.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">See the readme.txt
file included with each provider package for installation
instructions.</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Bob<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>