[mapguide-users] SDF Question

[Randy Glen Johnson]

In studio, when looking at the layer, there is a section labeled "Properties
Displayed in Viewer".  I was expecting to see my fields from the dbf file
but there is only one item listed - "FeatID" and when I click on a feature
from the viewer nothing shows in the properties dialog. ???

 

Am I doing something wrong or???

 

Best Regards,

 

Randy Glen Johnson

Programmer Analyst

Maintenance Connection, Inc.

1-888-567-3434 ext 800

http://www.maintenanceconnection.com <http://www.maintenanceconnection.com/>


-----Original Message-----
From: Traian Stanev [mailto:traian.stanev at autodesk.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 1:19 PM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] SDF Question

 

Yes it's open, I meant to say "native", not "proprietary".

 

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From: Jason Birch [mailto:Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 4:18 PM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] SDF Question

Did you say proprietary?  Is the SDF format itself not open?

 

Jason

 

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From: Traian Stanev [mailto:traian.stanev at autodesk.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 13:17
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] SDF Question

SDF is the MapGuide proprietary spatial data format.

If you choose to convert SHP to SDF, both the SHP and DBF will be combined
into the resulting SDF file. In general, the data is the same, but you can
expect better performance with SDF. So far there is no simple tool that lets
you view the data in the same way that Excel allows you to view DBF files
for example. 

 

Traian

 

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From: Randy Glen Johnson [mailto:rjohnson at maintenanceconnection.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 4:06 PM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapguide-users] SDF Question

I have some questions regarding SDF files.

 

My source data is .SHP files with dbf data files

 

Using Autodesk's MapGuide Studio Preview, I loaded my shape files.  It
appears that sdf files were created from wither the shape files or the dbf
files.  I am not sure which it used since I cant see the data.  Somewhere I
found an option to create a sdf file but I am not familiar with sdf files.
What tool do I use to look at data in a sdf file?  Looking on the web only
indicated that sql-ce uses that datatype.  I don't have sql-ce.  any
information and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Best Regards,

 

Randy Glen Johnson

Programmer Analyst

Maintenance Connection, Inc.

1-888-567-3434 ext 800

http://www.maintenanceconnection.com <http://www.maintenanceconnection.com/>


 

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