[fusion-users] Fusion + MapServer Function/Look Like MapGuide

[Paul Spencer]

Hi Tim,

you can get a Fusion application to look essentially like that  
application using mapserver.  The tiling capability on the client side  
is implemented by OpenLayers, so there is nothing magically mapguide  
about it.  However, there is no support in the ApplicationDefinition  
to let you define a tiled mapserver layer.  We are working on  
supporting all the OpenLayers layer types through the  
ApplicationDefinition for the 1.1 release but this work has not yet  
been done.

Even when the necessary hooks in Fusion are available, you will still  
need something on the server side to generate the tiles.  You can use  
mapserver to do this directly, but it is pretty inefficient since  
mapserver will draw the same tile over and over again.  What you need  
is something that will cache tiles for you and serve them from the  
cache if available.  For this, we will be recommending either the  
kaMap's tile.php or TileCache.

Cheers

Paul

On 14-Jul-08, at 4:22 PM, Nolte, Tim wrote:

> OK, I know this is probably wishful thinking. AS I've looked at the
> MapGuide live app gallery. And specifically the following demo:
>
> 	
> http://data.mapguide.com/mapguide/phpviewersample/ajaxviewersample.php
>
> I would like to get Fusion (1.0.6) functioning and looking like that
> demo but using UMN MapServer. Is this even possible? Something I'm  
> also
> wondering about is the Tiled AJAX sample. Is the tiling something
> specific and built in to MapGuide? I'm assuming the tiling is  
> something
> on the server side and nothing to do with Fusion?
>
> - Tim
>
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