[MapGuide-Users] MSE Studio Necessary?

[Robert Bray]

Adam,

The desktop Studio that is available as a preview today will be a for
sale product from Autodesk. We realized early on however that we could
not leave open source users in the dark creating map and layer XML files
by hand. So a web based variant of Studio is being developed that will
be offered as an open source project probably under the LGPL (like the
rest of MapGuide Open Source). 

The web-based open source Studio will be able to create feature sources
for file based data sources that already exist on the server. In
addition it will allow users to create and edit layer and map
definitions. Look for it sometime this spring. In the meantime an
updated preview version of the desktop Studio application will be made
available when we release MapGuide Open Source.

As for the map and layer definition schemas, they can be found in a
Schema directory under the server's installation directory. The plan is
to offer documentation of these as part of the Web API reference.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Lang [mailto:lists at garylang.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:31 AM
To: mse-users at mail.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [MapGuide-Users] MSE Studio Necessary?

There is an OS Studio being worked on. Let me get the rough schedule for
you. The first deliverable is a set of command-line tools, but there's a
web-based loader/creator being worked on as well, as I recall. Bob can
give
more details.

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Hill [mailto:adam.hill at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 9:24 AM
To: 'mse-users at mail.osgeo.org'
Subject: Re: [MapGuide-Users] MSE Studio Necessary?

Yes, could someone clarify what license Studio will be released/not
released as and does it materially impact using MapGuide Open Source?
(eg. will be be back to writing the equivalent of .map files by hand).

And if that is the case, will the format of the files that Studio
produces be documented and open enough in such a way to make it
possible for an Open Source alternative to Studio to be produced,
given there is enough collective will in the community?

adam...

On 2/15/06, myersat at mailbox.sc.edu <myersat at mailbox.sc.edu> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have read that the Studio product is not planned to be open source
> immediatley, but that a similar open source may be made available in
the
> future.  I was curious if it is possible to by-pass the use of studio
and
> manually establish the data structure to be read by MapServer?  Is
there
> anywhere to find more information about this?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> ~Aaron
>
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