I will jump a bit before Jason answers it :)<div><br></div><div>Yes, one of advantages of GeoREST is that you don't need additional server side code to allow MapGuide to talk with database.</div><div><br></div><div>In our implementations we use just HTML forms (in some cases with javascript but plain html form would work too) to edit data. By submitting HTML form to GeoREST , data will be updated either trough MapGuide or trough FDO depending of particular layer configuration.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Another use of HTML forms is to create query/filter request to search over data.</div><div>Also to generate reports (HTML) we use only html like text templates, no server side code needed to create html's from MapGuide/FDO data. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Haris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:55 PM, BradM <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brad.mason@dfo-mpo.gc.ca">brad.mason@dfo-mpo.gc.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Jason can we use GeoREST to create data entry forms and reports that allow<br>
Mapguide to talk to databases? Does GeoREST replace the need for using<br>
PHP forms and coldfusion forms?<br>
thanks<br>
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Jason Birch wrote:<br>
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> We are pleased to announce the first major release of GeoREST, a new Open<br>
> Source framework for publishing and interacting with geospatial data as<br>
> web<br>
> resources. GeoREST leverages, among other Open Source libraries, both<br>
> MapGuide and FDO as data sources.<br>
><br>
> With GeoREST 1.0 you can enable search engines to crawl your geospatial<br>
> data, dynamically publish to KML, GeoRSS or any other text based format,<br>
> use<br>
> web forms to search and update your data, and more. All of this<br>
> functionality is available entirely through configuration... no<br>
> programming<br>
> required!<br>
><br>
> Please visit the GeoREST project website for more information on GeoREST<br>
> and<br>
> the benefits it can bring to your geospatial publishing strategy.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.georest.org/" target="_blank">http://www.georest.org/</a><br>
><br>
> For a quick look, here are two sites that have been using GeoREST in a<br>
> production environment for over nine months, with great improvements in<br>
> the<br>
> accessibility of their data:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://maps.nanaimo.ca/data/" target="_blank">http://maps.nanaimo.ca/data/</a><br>
><br>
> <a href="http://share.vo-ka.si/iskanje/" target="_blank">http://share.vo-ka.si/iskanje/</a> (Slovenian)<br>
><br>
> And an example of using OpenLayers to edit a GeoREST vector layer overlaid<br>
> on a MapGuide image service:<br>
><br>
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> georestsamples<br>
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> example1<br>
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> rview<br>
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> ml <<a href="http://www.sl-king.com/georestsamples/example1/rview.html" target="_blank">http://www.sl-king.com/georestsamples/example1/rview.html</a>><br>
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> GeoREST is an independent Open Source project licensed under LGPL, though<br>
> our hope is that it will be integrated with the MapGuide project in the<br>
> future. It is available for installation on the Windows platform using<br>
> either the GeoREST built-in webserver or IIS.<br>
><br>
> We would love to hear what you think about GeoREST. Please join the<br>
> project's mailing list today and help us shape its future.<br>
><br>
> Jason Birch and Haris Kurtagic<br>
><br>
> P.S. Any help porting this project to run on Linux would be greatly<br>
> appreciated!<br>
><br>
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