[mapguide-users] Niewbie - need some general info on MGOS

[Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S]

Welcome to the project :)

1. It supports many spatial formats, not only databases, through Feature 
Data Objects:
http://fdo.osgeo.org/
A list of providers can be found here:
http://fdo.osgeo.org/OSProviderOverviews.html

2. It uses an internal DbXml database to store data that is not spatial.
It is located in the repository folder, but you should not modify it 
manually.
You might have heard talk of the SDF format, which is a database like 
format for spatial data.

3. Yes! There are 3 different ones, they are listed in the "Getting 
started with MapGuide" guide on page 3:
http://mapguide.osgeo.org/2.0/documentation.html

4. There are error reports for Firefox 3:
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/search?q=Firefox+3&noquickjump=1&ticket=on&changeset=on&wiki=on
If your problem does not match on of the described ones, please create a 
ticket for it.

Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S



Danas Augutis skrev:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I'm was working with ESRI familiar products, but now trying to move to open 
> source. 
> Today I installed mapguide open source on my machine. Everything went fine. 
> But getting started guide is not so good. I have folloving questions:
> 1. What data (database) formats MGOS does support? 
> 2. I read that it has native database, where it is located?
> 3. Is there any hot-to help to load raster datasets, or vector data to 
> program?
>
> 4. I'm trying to look to examples from 
> http://mapguide.osgeo.org/livegallery.html but insted of layer color I 
> get ? - is there any problem with me broser (firefox 3 b5)?
>
> Thanks,
> Dumas
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