[fusion-users] Simple question about MapGuide tiling

[pspencer at dmsolutions.ca]

sorry this is so frustrating, Stuart.  

<responseToRant>
While Open Source can have many benefits, one of the drawbacks is that features depend on what the developers' use cases are (or what they are funded to add).  This is not always the same as the community at large, and when the project gets freely shared as Open Source, there are often use cases that get neglected because no one implements them.

The main Fusion developers are all from DM Solutions Group and we just didn't have a need to implement things in the way you would like to use them.  We do listen to feedback from the community and try to allocate some time to working on things that are outside what we strictly need for our own needs and the result is that we are working on making something like your use case work for the next version.

The flip side to that is that you have an opportunity to become involved and make things work the way you would like them too :)
</responseToRant>

So some other ideas
 - you could create an OpenLayers LayerSwitcher control and use it instead of the legend widget.
 - you could look at how the Legend widget is implemented and modify it to display the other layers, or write your own custom code.

Cheers

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: "gingerbbm" <stuart.jones at jacobs.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2008 12:53pm
To: fusion-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [fusion-users] Simple question about MapGuide tiling


I might as well give up on that then.

It's a real shame. All this great software exists (MapGuide; Fusion;
OpenLayers), is freely available, and is lovingly and brilliantly supported
by the community but everything I've tried to do with it has ultimately been
thwarted.

I need a tiled base map with up to twenty switchable overlay layers, with
tooltips working on points, lines and polygons. On top of that the ability
to digitize a line, point or poly temporarily.

I can have all of that with OpenLayers - except for the tooltips because
MapGuide WMS doesn't work fully.
I can have all of that with Fusion - except for the tiled base map because I
can't combine different layer types.
I can have all of that with the Ajax viewer - except that the interface is
then restricted to frame hell.



I do appreciate your continued help.

Thanks
Stuart
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