[mapguide-users] How to display moving symbos on a map?

[Okeefe, Charlie (Mission Systems)]

Ok, thanks for the feedback. I'm curious why MapGuide might be
'overkill' for that job - is it harder to set up? Does it have extra
pieces that have nothing to do with a browser-based map?

Also, am I correct in thinking that the two projects you mention below
require a back-end wms service such as MapServer to serve the map tiles,
while MapGuide is a complete package which includes that functionality?

Charlie 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Spencer [mailto:pspencer at dmsolutions.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 7:46 PM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] How to display moving symbos on a map?

You can use MapGuide for this, but I think it would be a bit of
overkill.  It sounds like you want to use a lighter-weight web client
like OpenLayers (http://www.openlayers.org) or ka-Map (http://ka-
map.maptools.org) ... this type of client provides tiled maps (ala
google) and convenient functions for rendering client side features,
especially point locations, and dynamically updating their location and
attributes (i.e. changing an image) without reloading the map etc.

Cheers

Paul

On 13-Dec-06, at 3:15 PM, Okeefe, Charlie ((Mission Systems)) wrote:

> Hello all, I'm interested in using MapGuide for a project, and the 
> basic requirement is fairly straightforward - an interactive world map

> running in a web browser showing moving symbols whose locations are 
> given and updated by an outside service.
>
> I'm fairly new to a lot of the terminology involved here - from what I

> have read thus far, it looks like I might want to do this with a WFS 
> server - each symbol we want to show becomes a "feature"
> that can move when the service "updates" it.
>
> Am I on the right track here? Is MapGuide a good tool for this? If it 
> is, I'm interested in learning how to set up such an application. 
> Otherwise any suggestions on a better tool for the job would be 
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Charlie
>

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