[mapguide-users] Example sites

[Andy Morsell]

The underlying foundation of the site is the same regardless of whether you
are displaying world-wide or regional data.  You could approach it a couple
of different ways.  First, you could author one map that has all of your
layers contained in it and then control their availability through zoom
thresholds.  Or, you could approach it from a drill-down perspective.  You
start with the world view, the user clicks the hyperlink for the country, a
new web layout or map is then substituted in the main window or a new window
opens displaying that country.  From there, you could click on hyperlinks
for city's and so on.   Both of these options could be accomplished using
"out-of-the-box" functionality.
 
There are many other approaches that you could take using the API.  For
instance, from your world map, if the user zooms in, send the view envelope
to the server and determine which layers have extents that intersect that
envelope and only display those layer names in the legend as being
available.  A good approach would be to design a database that holds all of
your layer metadata and then you could build a dynamic, data driven
application.
 

Andy Morsell, P.E. 
Spatial Integrators, Inc. 
http://www.SpatialGIS.com 

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From: Kevin McKenna [mailto:kmk at getech.leeds.ac.uk] 
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 2:06 AM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Cc: Kevin McKenna
Subject: [mapguide-users] Example sites



Hi
 
I am just starting to look at MapGuide as a possible solution for my web GIS
needs. It looks very promising.
I have a couple of questions that someone may be able to help with.
 
1) All of the example sites I have seen seem to be related to city
layouts/planning. Are there any other examples with different datasets out
there? I am specifically looking at displaying my data coverages which are
distributed all over the world, so therefore on a totally different scale
from those examples I have already seen.
 
2) Also is it possible to have multiple instances of the viewer running on
the same site? For example if I wanted to have separate pages to display say
all my data in Egypt and all my data in Argentina. Taking this one step
further, could I even have separate pages for every country in the world?
Obviously this might not be desirable from a design point of view, but is it
technically possible?
 
Thanks for your help
Kevin
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