[mapguide-users] Spatial Data Formats Best Practice

[GISDOTNET]

Jason,

I appreciate your thoughts and advise. For one layer I need to be able to
push coordinates into a database and have those coordinates dynamically
displayed as points on the map. I'm not sure if MGOS can dynamically
generate points from an x/y table or if it would need to be a featureclass
that would be edited through the application. The other layers could reside
as SDF, but how do I migrate from an ESRI personal geodatabase, shapefile,
or ArcSDE, as these will be the primary data formats I will be receiving
from my clients. Lastly, are you aware of a PostGIS FDO document that
defines what information needs to be entered into the connection properties,
specifically, Service and DataStore?

Aaron
 

JasonBirch wrote:
> 
> For data management, an RDBMS is of course preferred.  
> 
> Other options to ArcSDE/PostGIS would be something like SQL Server 2008
> (cheaper than ArcSDE if you don't need the bells and whistles) or
> something like the Oracle Express Edition (free, but with a rather
> painful curve as you scale up).  I'd encourage you not to give up on
> getting PostGIS to work.  Often you'll see that something like the wrong
> version of the ssleay library is located elsewhere in the filesystem,
> but I've always been able to get it working by putting the required dlls
> in the FDO installation directory.
> 
> My preference in this regard though is to optimize for performance, and
> if you do not need up-to-the-minute currency or web-based editing you
> can see considerable performance gains by going to SDF or (if you're
> feeling adventurous) SQLite as the data storage format.
> 
> Jason
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GISDOTNET
> Subject: [mapguide-users] Spatial Data Formats Best Practice
> 
> 
> I have worked with ESRI web technology for the past 9 years and am
> getting up
> to speed with MapGuide Open Source 2.0.1 and the FDO providers. While
> there
> are numerous FDO providers, I would like to know what the preferred or
> best
> practice data format is for MapGuide OS 2.0.1? My overall preference is
> to
> go with a RDBMS spatial solution like ArcSDE or PostGIS; however, I am
> completely flexible. I have gone through dll hell trying to get the
> PostGIS
> FDO provider configured without success and ArcSDE comes at a steep
> price.
> 
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