[mapguide-users] Spatial Data Formats Best Practice

[GISDOTNET]

Ok, I now see the preview icon in Maestro. I'll work with the XML flip flop
for now, but maybe a ticket should be opened on this and the geometry
recognition issue. My last question, for now, is how or does OGR or PostGIS
handle annotation featureclasses? Or perhaps a better way of asking given
the focus of this thread, is what is the best way to handle annotation in
MGOS e.g. label a feature and set the symbology to transparent, etc.

Thanks,

Aaron


Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S wrote:
> 
> 
> GISDOTNET skrev:
>> Kenneth,
>>
>> That's what I don't understand. The features are in an ESRI personal
>> geodatabase when I use OGR and the tables as they are seen don't have
>> other
>> geometry types e.g. in ESRI you can't have mixed geometries in a
>> featureclass/table. I thought that the OGR was having trouble reading the
>> geometry type which is why I converted the personal geodatabase to
>> PostGIS.
>> The conversion went without problem; however, it still sees each table as
>> having all geometries which I know is not the case.
>>
>>   
> 
> Yes, I consider it a bug in the OGR/PostGIS provider, but I can live 
> with it, so I have not reported it.
> I probably should though.
> 
>> I just downloaded Maestro and was able to set the proper geometry to
>> display, but there isn't a preview in Maestro? So I saved the layer and
>> opened Autodesk MapGuide Studio 2008 and noticed that the layer showed an
>> error on the "Feature Class" dropdown. It appears that Maestro sees the
>> feature class differently than MapGuide Studio (MapGuide Studio<Feature
>> class=FdoPostGIS:public~taxparcel> and
>> Maestro<Schema=FdoPostGIS:public-x7e-taxparcel>. Not sure why or what
>> this
>> means, but I can't jump between the two environments.
>>
>>   
> 
> Ok, so MapGuide Studio and Maestro encodes the two names differently. 
> Thats very very strange.
> You can still use Maestro, but its a bit difficult then, because you 
> have to manually edit the xml
> for the layer, after saving it with Maestro.
> In Maestro, modify the layer as desired, then click save, then close.
> Now right click the layer on the right, and select "Edit as Xml".
> Find the place with the wrong schema, and correct it.
> Click save then close.
> 
> You may want to view the xml before editing it in Maestro, so you know 
> what to change it back to.
> 
>> In which environment does the "Preview" button that you mentioned reside?
>>   
> 
> Both environments have the preview. In both, it is a button in the 
> toolbar above the feature source.
>> Thanks again.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>>   
> 
> Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
> 
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