[mapguide-users] How to display moving symbos on a map?

[Paul Spencer]

You can use MapGuide for this, but I think it would be a bit of  
overkill.  It sounds like you want to use a lighter-weight web client  
like OpenLayers (http://www.openlayers.org) or ka-Map (http://ka- 
map.maptools.org) ... this type of client provides tiled maps (ala  
google) and convenient functions for rendering client side features,  
especially point locations, and dynamically updating their location  
and attributes (i.e. changing an image) without reloading the map etc.

Cheers

Paul

On 13-Dec-06, at 3:15 PM, Okeefe, Charlie ((Mission Systems)) wrote:

> Hello all, I'm interested in using MapGuide for a project, and the  
> basic requirement is fairly straightforward - an interactive world  
> map running in a web browser showing moving symbols whose locations  
> are given and updated by an outside service.
>
> I'm fairly new to a lot of the terminology involved here - from  
> what I have read thus far, it looks like I might want to do this  
> with a WFS server - each symbol we want to show becomes a "feature"  
> that can move when the service "updates" it.
>
> Am I on the right track here? Is MapGuide a good tool for this? If  
> it is, I'm interested in learning how to set up such an  
> application. Otherwise any suggestions on a better tool for the job  
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Charlie
>

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