[mapguide-users] MapGuide, Mapserver and Geoserver

[oshan]

Hi Kenneth

Thanks a lot for your reply, it is very informative. At this stage I'm
leaning toward using map guide OS.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S (via Nabble)
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> MapGuide serves the same purpose as MapServer, not sure about Geoserver.
> MapGuide uses FDO to access a (spatial) datastore (eg. database),
> and renders maps (eg. as a PNG image).
>
> MapGuide is also a service that can expose WMS and WFS.
>
> MapGuide comes bundles with two viewers,
> one called Flexible weblayout or Fusion viewer
> and one called Basic weblayout or AJAX viewer.
>
> Fusion is based on OpenLayers, and you can use the official OpenLayers
> viewer "as-is", if you want to.
>
> MapGuide can run on both IIS and Apache, with a choice of PHP, .Net or JSP
> for server programming language.
>
> With MapGuide, you can use MapGuide Maestro to set up your map and tools,
> without writing any code (point and click).
> You can then build extra functions, which require coding.
>
> You can browse the "Getting started" guide here to get a rough idea of the
> process:
> http://mapguide.osgeo.org/2.0/documentation.html
>
> There is an incomplete Maestro guide here (with screenshots):
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/maestro/UserGuide
>
> I don't know how much coding is involved in setting up a site with other
> servers
> than MapGuide.
>
>
> Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S
>
>
>
> oshan skrev:
>
> HI I can some please explain me the difference between MapGuide, MapServer
> and Geoserver. I understand that they are all map servers. Also I believe
> that mapguide consist of a browser interface to display the maps. Is this
> similar to openlayers? Are they using openlayers internally? I can sorta
> understand how mapserver or geoserver integrates into a GIS system. For
> example openlayers will be the front end of the GIS system. mapserver or
> geoserver will server the user maps and also somehow pull data from a
> database (ie postGIS) (not sure how this part works?) So is this how
> MapGuide also works? Which of these involve the least coding? Also if I am
> planing to use Apache Tomcat server and JSP for server side scripting which
> of the three will be a good choice? Thanks I eagerly awaits your reposes
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