Comments for Technical Overview: MapGuide at http://www.geowebguru.com , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://www.geowebguru.com Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:27:26 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.geowebguru.com/articles/250-technical-overview-mapguide#comment-374 Hi Richard, Peter and Geoff, I only have scarce knowledge of MapGuide, as we use MapServer, PostGIS and ogr2ogr for our application's data handling. But we also have future data providers who use AutoCAD DWG file format. At the moment OGR nor FDO supports DWG as far as I know - please correct me if wrong. What do you guys suggest could do the job? MapGuide OS? or Enterprise? FME? OGR extension? Regards, Karl - Karl Zinglersen Mon, 03 May 2010 12:40:23 +0100 http://www.geowebguru.com/articles/250-technical-overview-mapguide#comment-341 Sorry: fixed - Richard Marsden Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:31:28 +0100 http://www.geowebguru.com/articles/250-technical-overview-mapguide#comment-340 sorry to be so picky, but your new link has a trailing space that breaks the translation of the link... // Peter - Peter Rieks Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:18:58 +0100 http://www.geowebguru.com/articles/250-technical-overview-mapguide#comment-339 Peter: Thanks for the corrections. Yes the different versions may have led to confusion. I've also fixed the URL - it looks like AutoDesk's website redirection has changed since I wrote the article but before actual publication. I've changed it to use the URL as you've posted it, so if it changes again it should still work. - Richard Marsden Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:16:04 +0100 http://www.geowebguru.com/articles/250-technical-overview-mapguide#comment-338 Geoff: Thanks for the clarification - relationships between the different versions of some of these more mature products can be confusing at times. - Richard Marsden Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:08:46 +0100 http://www.geowebguru.com/articles/250-technical-overview-mapguide#comment-337 Hi Richard - thanks for your time reviewing MapGuide and for your overview post! As the Autodesk Product Manager for MapGuide, I feel I need to correct a few statements: * you indicate that "The open source version lacks connectivity to data stores to a number of data stores (eg. Oracle)...". That's not true. FDO Open Source which is the data access technology used by MapGuide Open Source, includes a big number of "providers", including Oracle - in fact, there are more fdo providers available as open source than what is supplied with the commercial MapGuide Enterprise version. * your second to last paragraph on limitations - "Most MapGuide applications have to rely on a client plug-in, ActiveX control, or Java applet...." is *very* misleading to the point that I think you are simply confusing "old" MapGuide 6.x with the reviewed MapGuide Open Source / MapGuide Enterprise. All the "limitations" you describe are true for MapGuide 6.x, but *not* for the new generation MGOS/MGE. For example, MGOS/MGE are based on the same source-code and use modern AJAX-bsaed viewers and not plug-ins. Also, spatial analysis is performed server-side, whereas MG6.x used the client-side plug-in for this functionality. * your link to MapGuide fails (bottom of post). The correct MURL is http://www.autodesk.com/mapguideenterprise Thanks // Peter - Peter Rieks Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:02:54 +0100 http://www.geowebguru.com/articles/250-technical-overview-mapguide#comment-336 First of all I would like to thank Geoweb Guru for taking the time to put together his interesting post about MapGuide which I would encourage anyone already using or interested in MapGuide to take a look at. One thing I would clarify is that MapGuide Open Source and MapGuide Enterprise share a common code stream, which is completely different from MapGuide 6.5. Both MapGuide Open Source and MapGuide Enterprise support AJAX clients, which means neither requires a client plugin. MapGuide 6.5 on the other hand requires a client (ActiveX or Java) plugin. - Geoff Zeiss Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:27:26 +0100