[mapguide-internals] RFC30 is posted

[Jason Birch]

Interesting idea.  I'd really like to see more information on:
 
- what overrides / parameters will be accessible for each of the various providers.  For instance, I'd like to see whether it will allow the specification of multiple layers and alternate styles from a WMS, the use of a specific image format, etc.  If you look on the FDO mailing list, there was a long thread from someone having difficulty generating WMS config documents.  Here's part of it:  http://www.nabble.com/RE%3A--mapguide-users--Advanced-WMS-provider-configuration-tf3567897s18162.html#a9967178
 
- whether this will work with the open source GDAL raster provider
 
- whether this relies on GetSchemaMapping returning accurate results
 
- how this ensures that valid config documents will be generated (validate against schema?)
 
Oh and most importantly... I recently wrote a PHP app to create a config document for the GDAL provider (including bounding boxes) by pointing to a directory on the server that contains images. (http://trac.osgeo.org/fdo/wiki/FdoGdalNotes#CreatingTileIndexConfigFiles)  Will this RFC make this job easier?  :)
 
Thanks,
Jason

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From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Leaf Li
Sent: Mon 2007-08-27 9:46 PM
To: mapguide-internals at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapguide-internals] RFC30 is posted



Hi, All



A new RFC (http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc30) has been
posted. The purpose of this RFC is to provide a utility named
ConfigDocument in MapGuide Web API to facilitate configuration XML
generation for FDO data sources, especially for WMS/ODBC/Raster data
sources.



Please review the RFC. Any comments/suggestions and questions are
welcome. All feedback is expected by the end of August 31, 2007. If no
changes are required it is my intent to motion that a vote for the
acceptance of the RFC be made and subsequently voted on by the PSCs.



Thanks,

Leaf Li



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