[mapguide-users] Basic Approach

[andresch at iway.na]

Dear list members

I am familiar with Mapserver and recently installed MapGuide Open 
Source on my Windows PC (Apache and PHP).

My client needs a basic website for viewing of shape files, searching 
on spacial data and then; for some data allow the result to be 
exported as shape file and some of the data to be exported as pdf 
only. What we plan to do is to have the data sources devided into 2 
PostGIS dbs. One for the restricted data sets and one for the open 
data sets. Depending on your login - you will have access to the 
various data set.

My qustion is; How easy is it to get the basic web mapping page up and 
running and to allow for very basic zoom levels, and search criteria. 
Also, does MapGuide security module allow for the above mentioned 
access control and also will I be able to print to pdf or export to 
shape file?

Lots of questions, but I need to know if MapGuide could be a easy to 
setup, yet effective solution?

Regards

Andre