[mapguide-internals] mapguide-internals Digest, Vol 150, Issue 1

[Reno Sun]

Hi Jackie,

It will be awesome to be able to print tiled based maps with some regular
mapguide fusion printing options.

I am all for this feature.

Cheers,
Reno

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> From: Jackie Ng <jumpinjackie at gmail.com>
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> Hi Reno,
>
> Just a little update on this idea.
>
> I have integrated mapguide-react-layout into one of our commercial products
> and one of the requirements born out of this integration is the need to be
> able to "print" the current view to a basic A4 page.
>
> Now assuming that the use case is quick-and-easy printouts from the browser
> and not CAD-tier plotting, it turns out that openlayers makes this quite
> easy to do through its rendercomplete event.
>
> You can see how mapguide-react-layout uses this code here:
>
> https://github.com/jumpinjackie/mapguide-react-layout/blob/0105e10c133a08231467a8483e3a5cd7243ead50/src/components/map-providers/base.ts#L249
>
> And to see what this looks like in action, checkout the work-in-progress
> standalone (no MapGuide dependencies) template demo here:
>
>
> https://jumpinjackie.github.io/mapguide-react-layout/master/generic-demo/index.html
>
>
> Just click the printer icon
>
> - Jackie
>
>
> > Hi All,
>
>
> > Would you please vote if you would like to see XYZ raster/vector tiles be
> > printable using Fusion viewer?
>
>
> > The main reason why I think it's a good idea are as follows:
>
>
> > 1. The performance to tile services provided by the company such as
> MapBox
> > is the way faster compared using native MapGuide tile service.
> > 2. Most of non-IT background users are confused about why couldn't they
> > print the map with basemap (XYZ tiles) when they are using Print/Quick
> Plot
> > function.
> > 3. Many raster/vector XYZ tile data served by MapBox or ESRI ArcGIS
> > Enterprise are belong to users' organization, so it will be very powerful
> > and helpful to be able to print their maps with those raster/vector tiles
> > using Fusion.
>
>
> > We can limit any illegal usages by using disclaimer or programmatic
> > restriction using Maestro. For example, we can make only the commercial
> > maps
> > using Google/Bing XYZ raster tiles/API non-printable.
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > Reno
>
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Reno Sun
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BBA (Information Management) & GIS Advanced Diploma
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