[mapguide-users] MapGuide Open Source Web Studio
Andrew DeMerchant
andrew.demerchant at gemtec.ca
Wed Jul 26 15:16:37 EDT 2006
Is this still being developed? Is it available for download yet (even in
beta form)?
Andrew
Paul Spencer wrote:
> ok, I think I get it. I'll have to try this. This will actually
> help me test the code that enumerates the feature classes in an fdo
> feature source (I didn't have any data to test more than one feature
> class so I bet it will fail ;))
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
> On 5-Jun-06, at 10:50 PM, Robert Bray wrote:
>
>> Paul,
>>
>> Using local references as in my previous e-mail you do not need to
>> call SetResourceData at all. With SHP just reference a directory
>> like this:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
>> <FeatureSource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema- instance"
>> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="FeatureSource-1.0.0.xsd">
>> <Provider>OSGeo.SHP.3.0</Provider>
>> <Parameter>
>> <Name>DefaultFileLocation</Name>
>> <Value>C:\MyData</Value>
>> </Parameter>
>> </FeatureSource>
>>
>> MapGuide will automatically expose each SHP file in the C:\MyData
>> folder as a Feature Class. Just make sure each SHP file has a PRJ
>> file that MapGuide supports via Proj.4 and you are all set. Note
>> that Studio will not show the SHP files in the Feature Source
>> editor, but that does not mean anything in this case. Studio is just
>> showing the result of enumerating the data associated with the
>> resource (e.g. being managed by that resource). In this case you are
>> managing the data, not MapGuide so it shows nothing.
>>
>> FYI - I seem to recall a bug with the SHP FDO Provider where all of
>> the data in a directory needs to use the same projection, so you
>> might want to watch out for that.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul Spencer (External)
>> Sent: Mon 6/5/2006 10:13 PM
>> To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
>> Cc:
>> Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] MapGuide Open Source Web Studio
>>
>> ahhh ... thats the trick.
>>
>> When I looked at an uploaded shape file using GetResourceContents
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>> <FeatureSource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="FeatureSource-1.0.0.xsd">
>> <Provider>OSGeo.SHP.3.0</Provider>
>> <Parameter>
>> <Name>DefaultFileLocation</Name>
>> <Value>%MG_DATA_FILE_PATH%</Value>
>> </Parameter>
>> </FeatureSource>
>>
>> it didn't seem to list the actual files so I wasn't sure what I could
>> do with this and SetResourceContent. Using EnumerateResourceData
>> listed the actual files but there didn't seem to be a way to put this
>> XML back into the server. Now that I look at the schema for the
>> feature source, I realize that I could probably just have multiple
>> Parameter tags, one for each file, and used SetResourceContent :)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5-Jun-06, at 9:48 PM, Robert Bray wrote:
>>
>> > Paul,
>> >
>> > A typical FeatureSourceDefintion (for SDF) that is created by
>> > Studio looks like:
>> >
>> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
>> > <FeatureSource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
>> > instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>> > xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="FeatureSource-1.0.0.xsd">
>> > <Provider>OSGeo.SDF.3.0</Provider>
>> > <Parameter>
>> > <Name>File</Name>
>> > <Value>%MG_DATA_FILE_PATH%Parcels.sdf</Value>
>> > </Parameter>
>> > <Parameter>
>> > <Name>ReadOnly</Name>
>> > <Value>TRUE</Value>
>> > </Parameter>
>> > </FeatureSource>
>> >
>> > If you replace the %MG_DATA_FILE_PATH% with a physical path to the
>> > file on the servers file system you can effectively "reference"
>> > data and not worry about uploading it. A similar technique can be
>> > used for SHP files, Raster files, etc.
>> >
>> > Bob
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Paul Spencer (External)
>> > Sent: Mon 6/5/2006 9:14 PM
>> > To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
>> > Cc:
>> > Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] MapGuide Open Source Web Studio
>> >
>> > The preview of the web layout is from the sample Sheboygan package.
>> > Web Studio can load web layouts using the ajax viewer, you just can't
>> > create or edit them yet.
>> >
>> > I had originally thought that we would only be supporting data that
>> > was already on the server. The data that is stored on the server is
>> > reported through the MapAgent using the EnumerateResourceData
>> > operation. The XML returned from this lists the data file or files
>> > that are part of the resource. There doesn't seem to be a way to
>> > create the XML and put it into the server. Thus it doesn't seem
>> > possible to support creating a feature source that refers to data
>> > already on the server. I could be wrong about this, though.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> > Paul
>> >
>> >
>> > On 5-Jun-06, at 6:20 PM, Jason Birch wrote:
>> >
>> > > IANAP (I am not a Paul), but I think that "The primary goal of this
>> > > release is to enable users to get data into the server" must mean
>> > > that there is some mechanism for either uploading data, or (based
>> > > on some questions Paul asked on this list) possibly referring to
>> > > data that is already on the server.
>> > >
>> > > One of the screen shots shows a web layout. Perhaps there is a
>> > > "default" web layout provided?
>> > >
>> > > Jason
>> > >
>> > > ________________________________
>> > >
>> > > From: Andy Morsell [@spatialgis.com]
>> > > Sent: Mon 2006-06-05 2:44 PM
>> > > Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] MapGuide Open Source Web Studio
>> > >
>> > > Wow, that really does look great. I'm confused on a couple of
>> > issues,
>> > > though. First, it doesn't support load procedures, etc. I think
>> > > that makes
>> > > sense for a pure web-based authoring tool, but at this point,
>> > > people will
>> > > still have to use MapGuide Studio to load their data and then
>> > > author it with
>> > > this tool instead? I could see that a company may choose to have a
>> > > couple
>> > > of licenses of Studio for this and other advanced functionality
>> > > purposes and
>> > > then use the open source version for other folks needing to create
>> > > maps from
>> > > that data. I also imagine that others will eventually develop open
>> > > source
>> > > tools for loading data without the need for Studio.
>> > >
>> > > Second, you say that it doesn't support web layouts. Are the
>> > > webLayout's in
>> > > the Web Studio version different than MapGuide Studio web layouts?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks again for developing this open source tool. It will be very
>> > > useful.
>> > >
>> > > <winmail.dat>
>> > >
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