[mapguide-users] Raster Support yet?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Dennis Megarry wrote:
> I was quite excited that Autodesk opensourced its mapGuide product...  I
> spent this weekend getting a dev box up and a staging server to start
> testing.  Got the sample stuff installed and running fine..  Read the doc's
> and help files on getting my GeoTIFF raster's in and sat down for a long
> night..  Well, its cut short now..  NO RASTER SUPPORT? ouch...
> 
> Anyone been able to get this working yet?  Or should I go back to MapServer?
> Not that MapServer is bad, its a great project, its just that MapGuide
> seemed to be a bit more in line with what I'd like to use..  Its a show
> stopper for me without raster support.

Dennis,

The open source version does not yet have an FDO raster provider.  I have
one under development based on GDAL and am hoping to make it available in
an "alpha" form fairly soon.  Currently the code is being reviewed by Autodesk
prior to my being able to make the code available as it was derived from
their proprietary raster provider.

I'm not exactly clear on whether Autodesk is providing access to the
proprietary raster provider to some beta tests or not.  It will presumably
be part of the commercial release.

Best regards,
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