MapGuide Open Source (MGOS) MapGuide Open Source (MGOS) A powerful emerging open source technology for web A powerful emerging open source technology for web based GIS development based GIS development Kishore Patel Founder and President, CEO CyberSWIFT, LLC. Email: kishore.patel@cyber- swift.com Website: http://www.cyber- swift.com 2008 Ohio GIS Conference September 10-12, 2008 Crowne Plaza North Hotel Columbus, Ohio
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MapGuide Open Source (MGOS)MapGuide Open Source (MGOS)A powerful emerging open source technology for web based GIS A powerful emerging open source technology for web based GIS development development
MapGuide Open Source is a web-based platform that enables users to quickly develop and deploy web mapping applications and geospatial web services.
- http://mapguide.osgeo.org/
What’s MapGuide Enterprise / Open Source?
A new spatial application server that allows developers to quickly publish maps and spatial applications to the web.
Components: Server Web Extensions
(for application development) Studio
(for map authoring) Viewers Site Administrator
MapGuide OpenSource = open source version
Autodesk® MapGuide Enterprise = commercial version
Autodesk® MapGuide Studio = commercial authoring tool
What’s In MapGuide OpenSource?(open source version)Basic components Core server technology
Web Extensions
Viewers
Site Administrator
FDO providers for SDF and SHP
FDO providers for ODBC, ArcSDE, MySQL, GDAL Raster, WMS, WFS
Open source availability means Freely downloadable code
Open, collaborative software development (to come)
Provided under an open source license (LGPL)
Reasons to use MapGuide Open Source?
Lower Cost of Ownership
Support for the Linux operating system and Apache web server gives you a choice of platform, which can reduce your ongoing system costs. Also, the new Resource Database in Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise allows you to create libraries of layers that can be shared by many maps. Change the layer once and all of your maps are instantly updated.
LinuxApache
Web Server
Reasons to use MapGuide Open Source?
Easier Data Access with FDO (Feature Data Objects)
Easy Access to Geospatial Data (includes both vector and raster formats. It support ESRI SHP and SDF vector file format, ESRI ArcSDE, MySQL, Oracle Spatial, ODBC database formats etc )
Rich and Consistent Data Access
Platform and Technology Neutrality
Extensibility via Open Source
Open to the World through OGC support
Broad Platform Support
Microsoft Windows
Linux
Apache Web
ServerMicrosoft
IIS
Deploy on…
Serve with…
Develop with…
Browse with…
Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Flexible Viewing Options
DWF AJAX
Vector based Print to scale Offline support
Internet Explorer only Internet Explorer and Firefox
Write your application logic within your server environment …
… to work with either viewer on any client.
Integration and mashup with Google Maps/Google EarthBy integrating Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise with Google Maps or Google Earth, you can use the publicly available data from Google with local data stored in an MapGuide environment for your application.
Enhanced Stylization
Polygon Fill Transparency
True Color Support
Advanced Labeling
Labels follow the path of the line!
Labels auto scale to fit the available space!
Segmented lines are stitched together and labeled as one feature!