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As Zac notes, it depends on what you want.<br>
If you want to use MapGuide tiles, turn layers on/off, use<br>
selection, etc. you should use the MapGuide variant.<br>
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The MapGuide variant is also usable, without exposing the individual<br>
layers as WMS, so a map setup is easier to make and maintain.<br>
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The synchronous call is not made with WMS.<br>
A fix is done for MapGuide to remove this requirement, which <br>
means that MapGuide 2.1 won't have this problem.<br>
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I have used the MapGuide layer in OL for quite some time,<br>
and I have never had trouble with the call.<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Regard,. Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
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Zac Spitzer skrev:<br>
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<pre wrap="">depending on what your doing!
wms ain't cached by mapguide whch s fine if your doing dynamic maps,
but if you need
to serve more than a few users, your gonna hit performance issues....
I remember that Mr adair has patches in place for addressing some of that, have
a look at the OL trac
the session id stuff is only required for dynamic maps... which is
useful when your
doing funky stuff with the map, of course when your not, it's a big
old pain in the butt,
catch-22 yosarian....
there's quite a case for a review of mapguide to make it more
openlayers friendly,
z
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:21 PM, gingerbbm <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:stuart.jones@jacobs.com"><stuart.jones@jacobs.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Brilliant. Thanks chaps :)
The question now becomes: is there any preference between using
OpenLayers.Layer.MapGuide and OpenLayers.Layer.WMS (which I've been using up
until now)? The WMS is simpler to implement (no session ID required).
Furthermore there's this warning from the MapGuide class's API
documentation:
"NOTE: untiled overlay layers issues a synchronous AJAX request before the
image request can be issued so the users browser may lock up if the MG Web
tier does not respond in a timely fashion."
If the WMS call isn't synchronous (is it?), then there appears to be two
good reasons to use it instead of the MapGuide class.
Thoughts?
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