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color=#0000ff size=2>Your idea for an application would work fine in MapGuide
Open Source. Yes, it directly supports Shape files with the OSGeo FDO
Shape file provider. You can use the PHP, .NET, or Java web extensions for
your application. There is quite a bit of sample code
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<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Tahoma size=1>Andy Morsell, P.E.</FONT></SPAN>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> mapguide-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Ellis
Yu<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:22 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
mapguide-users@lists.osgeo.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [mapguide-users] New user on
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method=post><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Dear All,</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2> I'm now planning to develop a
map view and plot our vessels on the map according to their lat/long position.
Thus I would like to getting some opinions from you. Hope you can help.
</FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2> My idea
is to load a world map shape file and plan to write a program to spot a red dot
on the map base on the user input lat/long coordinate. Does mapguide support
shapefile format ? I planand also written either in VB.net 2003 or eclipse rcp.
Which one is supported ? And also, is any similiar sample code for me as
reference? Thanks</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Best Rdgs</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Ellis</FONT> <BR>
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