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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=187521615-20042006><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Right now MapGuide Studio is the only way to create MGOS maps,
but Autodesk has said that there will be a Studio "Lite" coming soon that will
be open source and will be HTML based. The preview version does support
database connectivity, you need to download the beta FDO ODBC providers from
here first: </FONT><A
href="https://mapguide.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=35&expandFolder=35&folderID=35"><FONT
face=Arial
size=2>https://mapguide.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=35&expandFolder=35&folderID=35</FONT></A><SPAN
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class=000411915-20042006><FONT face=Arial size=2>I do not know if there are any
other AVL apps based on MGOS out there. MGOS has really only been
officially released for a couple of months.</FONT> <FONT face=Arial size=2>
There were many AVL apps created with the older MapGuide, @Road being the most
notable - <A
href="http://www.atroad.com/main.html">http://www.atroad.com/main.html</A></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->
<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Tahoma size=1>Andy </FONT></SPAN><BR></P>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Max Brown [mailto:maxbrown3@gmail.com]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 20, 2006 2:05 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
users@mapguide.osgeo.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [mapguide-users] MapGuide for an
AVL app?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks Andy for the info, very useful for my evaluation, I also have a few
other clarifications : must I use Autodesk Mapguide Studio to develop the app?
the preview version doesn't support anything much (specially database
connectivity). So is there an alternative to MGS or preferably an Open Source
option :). </DIV>
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<DIV>Do you know any other similar apps developed using MGOS? where I might be
able to look at a sample to get an idea.</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 4/20/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Andy
Morsell</B> <<A
href="mailto:amorsell@spatialgis.com">amorsell@spatialgis.com</A>>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Yes, it
would work well. As part of your system, you will be feeding a database
with point information (historic and current) about vehicle locations.
You would define some queries in that database to extract only the latest
time-based position. Then, in MGOS, you would point your layer
definition(s) to these queries where the symbols would be drawn directly from
the x,y data in the database using the FDO ODBC data provider. A little
programming using the MGOS API would be necessary to refresh the layers at the
desired time interval, be it every 10 seconds or every 5 minutes or
whatever. If the latest point data has changed since the last refresh,
then the vehicle symbols will shift accordingly. Or, you might be able
to write a trigger that would call a stored procedure if new point data is
added and then force a refresh from the server-side.
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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
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://www.spatialgis.com/"
target=_blank>http://www.SpatialGIS.com</A></FONT></SPAN> </P>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Max Brown [mailto:<A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:maxbrown3@gmail.com" target=_blank>maxbrown3@gmail.com</A>]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 19, 2006 10:10 PM <BR><B>To:</B> <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="mailto:users@mapguide.osgeo.org"
target=_blank>users@mapguide.osgeo.org</A><BR><B>Subject:</B> [mapguide-users]
MapGuide for an AVL app?<BR></FONT><BR> </DIV></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>Hello,</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm currently evaluating web based mapping software for an AVL system.
Could somebody let me know if Mapguide OS is a suitable dev platform to
develop a web based Vehicle tracking system. Is it possible to dynamically
plot coordinates on the MapGuide OS platoform. </DIV>
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<DIV>Thx</DIV>
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