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MapGuide serves the same purpose as MapServer, not sure about Geoserver.<br>
MapGuide uses FDO to access a (spatial) datastore (eg. database), <br>
and renders maps (eg. as a PNG image).<br>
<br>
MapGuide is also a service that can expose WMS and WFS.<br>
<br>
MapGuide comes bundles with two viewers, <br>
one called Flexible weblayout or Fusion viewer <br>
and one called Basic weblayout or AJAX viewer.<br>
<br>
Fusion is based on OpenLayers, and you can use the official OpenLayers<br>
viewer "as-is", if you want to.<br>
<br>
MapGuide can run on both IIS and Apache, with a choice of PHP, .Net or
JSP<br>
for server programming language.<br>
<br>
With MapGuide, you can use MapGuide Maestro to set up your map and
tools,<br>
without writing any code (point and click). <br>
You can then build extra functions, which require coding.<br>
<br>
You can browse the "Getting started" guide here to get a rough idea of
the process:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mapguide.osgeo.org/2.0/documentation.html">http://mapguide.osgeo.org/2.0/documentation.html</a><br>
<br>
There is an incomplete Maestro guide here (with screenshots):<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/maestro/UserGuide">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/maestro/UserGuide</a><br>
<br>
I don't know how much coding is involved in setting up a site with
other servers<br>
than MapGuide.<br>
<br>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
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oshan skrev:
<blockquote cite="mid:1250911428646-3493774.post@n2.nabble.com"
type="cite">HI
I can some please explain me the difference between MapGuide, MapServer
and Geoserver. I understand that they are all map servers. Also I
believe that mapguide consist of a browser interface to display the
maps. Is this similar to openlayers? Are they using openlayers
internally? I can sorta understand how mapserver or geoserver
integrates into a GIS system. For example openlayers will be the front
end of the GIS system. mapserver or geoserver will server the user maps
and also somehow pull data from a database (ie postGIS) (not sure how
this part works?) So is this how MapGuide also works?
Which of these involve the least coding? Also if I am planing to use
Apache Tomcat server and JSP for server side scripting which of the
three will be a good choice?
Thanks
I eagerly awaits your reposes <br>
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