[mapguide-users] Programatically create MGP Packages or dynamically load shape files

[Andrew DeMerchant]

Packages are zip files, meant to just let you move around your 
projects....you certainly don't have to have a package made to be able 
to display a map. As for your shp file question, depending on your 
upload location, you could try making an unmanaged layer pointing to the 
upload folder. Your first order of business is likely to download 
Maestro - http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/maestro

Andrew

littlecharva wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm starting to get my head around the way MapGuide works, and it seems that
> any maps I want to display have to live in a loaded Package - is that
> correct?
>
> I want to enable my application to accept Shapefiles uploaded by its users
> and display them.  I can't find any information on loading Shapefiles
> directly into the MapGuide API, so is there a way to dynamically create
> Packages and load the Shapefiles into them?
>
> I'm not after a solution, just a point in the right direction.
>
> Cheers,
> Anthony
>   

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