<div>Great help Andy, I'll try out your info and get back to you. First I need to find some good documentation on how I can dev this app (implementing the technologies). I couldn't get much out of the Dev guide. </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>> wrote:</span>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><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:
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff"><span><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 onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.atroad.com/main.html" target="_blank">
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<div style="DIRECTION: ltr"><span class="q"><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></span></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 :).
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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 onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:amorsell@spatialgis.com" target="_blank">amorsell@spatialgis.com
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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">
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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
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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.
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<div>Thx</div>
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