[mapguide-users] vector editing
Paul Spencer
pagameba at gmail.com
Thu May 3 07:30:24 EDT 2007
Hi Max,
I am not able to give you a specific timeline for when it will be
available commercially, or how much it will cost, but I can tell you
that the intention is for it to work with both MGOS and MGE.
I will have our product manager contact you offline regarding the
timing and cost.
Cheers
Paul
On 2-May-07, at 10:46 PM, Rahul wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> MapGuide Fusion Framework for MapGuide Looks quite
> intresting with basic editing capabilities and i am very eager to
> use in some of our projects,can you give any idea when it will be
> commercially available and how much will it cost as a plugin to the
> MGOS Application.
>
> As per your previous reply it seems that it will be only available
> for MGOS.
>
> Thanks
> Max
>
>
> Paul Spencer <pagameba at gmail.com> wrote:
> Charles,
>
> we are using this capability in some of our projects now but it is
> not as finished as I had hoped. It will not be part of MGOS, it will
> only be available commercially as a plugin to an MGOS application
> framework we are developing called Fusion. I have hopes that the
> Fusion framework will replace the AJAX viewer in MGOS at some point,
> but that is not certain.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
> On 30-Mar-07, at 10:02 AM, Charles B wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > This sounds very interesting. Your predictions was to have this
> > ready for
> > the new year, is this available right now ?
> >
> > Is this (or will be) in the MGOS version or then Enterprise
> version ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Charles
> >
> >
> >
> > pagameba wrote:
> >>
> >> Shailesh,
> >>
> >> I will try to put together a description of the tools and their
> >> capabilities soon. In the mean time, to satisfy curiosity, here
> is a
> >> quick outline:
> >>
> >> The editing tools are being built on top of an application
> framework
> >> we are building for MapGuide OS/Enterprise. This framework is
> >> tentatively known as Fusion or MapGuide Fusion. It uses a modified
> >> version of a weblayout resource to define the commands,
> toolbars, and
> >> context menus for an application. There are some changes to the
> >> schema of the weblayout that makes it incompatible with the
> existing
> >> ajax viewer and with Studio, so currently the weblayout has to be
> >> created by hand.
> >>
> >> MapGuide Fusion uses an HTML page and a single javascript include
> >> (fusion.js :)) to parse the HTML page and insert functionality
> based
> >> on the ID of HTML elements and associated Commands from the
> >> weblayout. This allows much more flexibility when designing an
> >> application (you can put anything anywhere), and separates code
> from
> >> presentation quite nicely. It also compartmentalizes the code into
> >> separate pieces of functionality that interoperate in a standard
> way
> >> to make code easier to write and maintain.
> >>
> >> This toolkit is brand new, but builds on the experience DM
> Solutions
> >> Group has with building similar toolkits around MapServer.
> >>
> >> The toolkit itself will likely be an open source project, hopefully
> >> merging into the MapGuide OS project and potentially replacing the
> >> existing weblayout/ajax viewer component (although there is a
> lot to
> >> be done and to discuss before this becomes a possibility).
> >>
> >> The editing tools are part of something we are tentatively
> calling a
> >> Light-Weight Edit capability (LWE). They would be available as an
> >> extension to MapGuide Fusion and would include a simple editing
> >> application plus the actual widgets that would allow inserting
> >> editing into existing applications built on MapGuide Fusion.
> >>
> >> The editing capabilities include both digitizing (creating new
> >> features) and editing existing features in a web-based environment.
> >> The tools are seamlessly cross-browser compliant in Internet
> Explorer
> >> 6/7, Firefox 1.5/2 and Safari 2. I haven't tested in Opera, but I
> >> think it will work there too.
> >>
> >> The tools generally work by creating shadow copies of feature
> sources
> >> to prevent accidents. There is an undo and automatic recovery
> >> capability because deletes and edits are stored in the Library
> >> repository rather than the Session - if you close your browser, you
> >> have an opportunity to restore when you next connect.
> >>
> >> The tools work with the currently selected layer (managed by a
> layer
> >> control), and allow you to have multiple edits on multiple layers
> >> without saving. For layers that have a single geometric type, the
> >> tool automatically creates the appropriate type of geometry. For
> >> layers that have multiple types, the user is prompted to select
> from
> >> the available types.
> >>
> >> There is a commit tool that takes existing edits and merges them
> back
> >> into the original feature source.
> >>
> >> Because we use the Feature Service API, the editing capability is
> >> independent of the provider used with the feature source ... but it
> >> does have to be a vector feature source of course!
> >>
> >> For editing capabilities, we have the same basic node/segment
> editing
> >> capabilities that you would find in most vector editing packages:
> >>
> >> * digitize/edit points, lines and polygons
> >> * select a node and drag to move
> >> * select a line segment (two nodes) and drag to move
> >> * shift-select to add nodes to the selection
> >> * delete nodes (del key)
> >> * insert new nodes
> >>
> >> and probably a few other features that I've forgotten.
> >>
> >> We are also building an attribute editing grid so that you can edit
> >> the attributes of any selected feature (and newly created ones
> too).
> >>
> >> Availability: well, much of this is actually already done. But it
> >> needs a few finishing bits and pieces, and substantial testing. My
> >> current plan is to have this ready for the new year.
> >>
> >> Um ... seems like I've written a pretty good description ;)
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Paul
> >>
> >>
> >> On 28-Oct-06, at 4:24 AM, shailesh wrote:
> >>
> >>> I don't think even mapguide Enterprise has any of these
> capabilites
> >>> either. Any one at autodesk following up this please confirm.
> >>> Paul can you publish / post the capabilities of the tool/s DM is
> >>> developing ?
> >>> Eager to understand upto what extent can we go, while proposing
> >>> architecture to our clients using mapguide applications and have
> >>> very few requirements in terms of editing maps.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -Regards
> >>> Shailesh
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: Paul Spencer
> >>> To:
> >>> Cc:
> >>> Date: Saturday, October 28 2006 12:10 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] vector editing
> >>> Chris,
> >>>
> >>> it is possible, but there are currently no tools in the open
> source
> >>> package that allow you access to this functionality.
> >>>
> >>> MapGuide Enterprise may contain some of this functionality, but
> I'm
> >>> not sure.
> >>>
> >>> DM Solutions Group is working on building some of these types of
> >>> tools as a commercial capability on top of MapGuide OS/Enterprise.
> >>> Contact me directly if you are interested in this.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>>
> >>> Paul
> >>>
> >>> On 27-Oct-06, at 11:46 AM, Chris Stewart wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello
> >>>>
> >>>> Could someone tell me if it is currently possible to create a web
> >>>> application that enables a client to remotely edit vector data
> for
> >>>> their
> >>>> own purposes - as opposed to just being able to view data, zoom
> >>> in and
> >>>> out and create buffers - using MapGuide Open Source, together
> with
> >>>> either MapGuide Web Studio or Autodesk MapGuide Studio.
> >>>>
> >>>> Many thanks
> >>>>
> >>>> Chris
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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