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

[David Percy]

Paul, thanks for the explanation on the tiling.

I've actually been waiting to use and contribute to Fusion until the 
tiling was in place, as we currently use kamap for our tiling engine for 
the US geological survey, and it really helps. We are just working with 
Mootools and Openlayers, but I'd be happier if we were contributing to 
an active project, like Fusion, since that's the open source spirit.

Is there a way to "wire" the unsupported Openlayers layer types into a 
Fusion app? It doesn't seem like it should be too difficult, but I was 
worried about making things hard to migrate once the Fusion framework 
supports it.

I'd appreciate any thoughts you (or others on the PSC) have on this.
Cheers,
Percy

Paul Spencer wrote:
> 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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David Percy
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Geology Department
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