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

[Brad Nesom]

Charlie,
I think what my two cents says is that MG ent may be overkill. In my opinion
mapguide 6.5 is not overkill for any organization or project. It is a quick
simple way to share gis data with not only non gis uers but with everyone.
The third cent or the bad nickel is that MG OS/Ent is not an out of the box
solution. It will do just simple display but the build/configuration process
is much more technical. Then you have a lot of flexibility to build
application on top of that base. MG6.5 did not allow Autodesk to develop
that direction.
The good news is that Autodesk does still sell 6.5 and I would have to
assume that if sales of 6.5 exceeded the ent implementations they may
consider their folly.
JM2c
Brad
NOTE: I only have experience with mg 6.5. The only thing I have done with
mg/ent is to not be able to get it running.

Does it have extra pieces that have nothing to do with a browser-based map?
NO
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?
MG6.5 does support wms on paper I don't know that I have ever seen or heard
of any working examples. However your orginal post mentioned... are 
> given and updated by an outside service.
Wfs/wms should not be considered the only solution to this task. Some of the
possibilities would depend on the network relationships of these services
you speak of. In other words what does outside mean. Another strong
consideration is what formats the outside services support. Such as ogc,
wfs/wms, oracle spatial, esri sde, arcgis server, mge (Intergraph),
mappoint, google map api, osgeo.
The list grows daily!




-----Original Message-----
From: Okeefe, Charlie (Mission Systems) [mailto:Charlie.Okeefe at ngc.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:30 PM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] How to display moving symbos on a map?

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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