[mapguide-users] Spatial Data Formats Best Practice

[Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S]

You can enter a ticket for Maestro here:
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/newticket
(Remember to select Component = Maestro).

You can enter a ticket for FDO (OGR + PostGIS provider) here:
http://trac.osgeo.org/fdo/newticket

You could also file a ticket for Studio through the Autodesk page.
I think there's a link in one of the menus in Studio.

I hope someone else can answer your annotation question.

Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S



GISDOTNET skrev:
> Ok, I found now see the preview icon in maestro. I work with the XML flip
> flop for now, but maybe a ticket should be opened on the 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 he focus if this thread, is what is the best way to handle annotation
> 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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