I think I may have found the cause of the issue:
First, I was able to reproduce the .idx file corruption by selecting one of the
features in the layer created from the affected shp file. Then I toggled the
layer on and off until the .idx file was corrupted. Doing this without he
selection
MapGuide Open Source 2.5.2
Windows Server 2008 x64
Maestro 5.1
Occasionally layers created from unmanaged shp file feature sources will no
longer display. I can fix this by deleting the .idx file for the affected shp
file. The idx file is regenerated the next time the layer is viewed and the
I wouldn’t expect there to be any with MapGuide Open Source being open source
and all. There could be, the thought just never occurred to me.
If not, there should be nothing wrong with finding companies that sell MapGuide
Open Source applications and asking if they’re willing to contract
From what I’ve read here and there, the Java api is infrequently used. At the
very least, getting support from here will be difficult because so few use it.
At the most, I would expect the api itself to be buggy.
PHP and .NET appear to be equally used and have good documentation. .NET might
be
It’s difficult to provide specific links. It’s more of a general impression
that I have been given over time.
I can tell you that most of my impressions come from this mailing list and this
blog: http://themapguyde.blogspot.ca/
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There are no binaries that will work for Mapguide 2.6 yet. This is because
Mapguide 2.6 is compiled with visual studio 2012. Since there are no ECW
binaries compiled with 2012 yet on gisinternals
http://www.gisinternals.com/sdk/ you will not be able to install ECW support
onto Mapguide 2.6.
Mapguide 2.5 will work.
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Have you used Dependency Walker to check for missing dll dependencies? This is
brought up every time, but its seriously the best way to make sure these dlls
are installed correctly.
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Troubleshoot by placing
alert(X);
alert(Y);
alert(Scale);
alert(myMap);
in the javascript and see what pops up. The first three should return the
expected values and myMap should return Frame (I think). If myMap returns
undefined then parent.parent wasn't the correct location of the mapFrame.
Pre-caching tiles with mgcooker generally takes a long time, and from the way
you describe your maps, generating tiles for all of your scales is going to
take a crazy amount of time.
In my application I only tile scales 1:500 or higher. Every time I've tried to
tile more than that mgcooker
You don't need to nest concat() as of mapguide 2.4. You only need to seperate
by comma. Nesting concat won't work. Also, your SECTIONID, which I'm assuming
is an attribute, does not need to be in quotes. The correct string should look
like this (not guaranteed to work because I can't check
Fusion doesn't render its layers with REST, so I can't image it would. The way
I see it, REST has nothing to do with the existing viewers or their
functionality. It's a new method of sending and receiving map information.
Fusion and AJAX already have their ways of sending and getting data. A
Just noticed this. When I create a DWF using REST and I have labeled features,
the labels don't show up.
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Scratch that. The labeling is behaving strange depending on the sizing settings
I have.
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I've been using MapGuide REST to develop some custom printing functionality.
In particular I've I'm interested in the PDF and DWF output. The layered PDF
functionality I couldn't use because it doesn't work with maps with base map
groups yet.
The DWF output has been really helpful because you
Both of these are interesting comments whose suggestions I hadn't considered.
I'll do some more testing report what I discover.
Thanks, all.
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It looks to me like map scales are inaccurate. According to my calculations
they're off by %13.528.
Here's how to demonstrate the inaccuracy:
Open localhost/mapguide/dotnetsamples/main.aspx
Zoom to scale 1:1000
Draw a line that is one
I figured it out. Posting my problems here tends to help me organize my
thoughts and solve problems. Hope you don't mind.
The solution was from an old mapguide user post:
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/scale-bar-always-says-Meters-td4203151.html
I edited
Windows Server 2008 64-bit
MapGuide Open Source 2.5.2
MapGuide REST 0.10
Maestro 5.1
Hi,
I'm using the following REST GET request:
localhost/mapguide/rest/session/[SessionId]/[MapName].Map/plot.dwf?papersize=A3printlayout=Library://Shared/Layouts/Print.PrintLayout
Windows Server 2008 64-bit
MapGuide Opensource 2.5.2
MapGuide REST 0.10
MapGuide REST is a very nice thing with many valued features. Here's an error I
found while exploiting its functionality:
Creating a layered PDF using MapGuide REST doesn't seem to work for maps that
have base layer
Post an image of the result you’re getting and describe the result you expect.
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The creation of MapGuide sessions for sure is related to the size of RAM
consumption. RAM is intermittently released as the sessions expire, however,
and occasional peaks of RAM usage is expected.
If RAM usage increases during times when maps are not being used that might
require a bit more
Mauricio is right. Session ID and mapname are all of the parameters needed to
perform tasks using the MapGuide web server API. Passing them to your custom
programming code through querystring is perfectly valid.
Keep in mind, however, that if users try to bookmark urls for pages that rely
on
A possible alternative to using MapGuide API programming code to make the
changes, it might be worth investigating the built in Python-based scripting
that comes built into Maestro. I've never used it myself and don't know much
about it, but from the looks of it using Python might also do the
Nice, I think I'll bookmark this to watch later. Thanks!
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It sounds like your second user is sharing the session ID of the first. I would
investigate the programming code you use to generate new MapGuide sessions when
the user accesses a map
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I am also interested in the answer to this question. The scaling of my
application hasn’t reached that point yet, but the only scaling solution I’ve
come up with so far is to have multiple servers each with their own instance of
MGOS running a portion of the maps we serve.
The strategy is
I see. Thank you for your response.
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Here’s how I handle it:
Before I save my map I rename the folder appending _bak at the end. This
prevents the folder from being deleted. Then I save the map. Then I open the
map in a web browser so MapGuide will create the tile cache folder.
Then I open the _bak folder and cut/past its
By return rows, I just mean what you see here when you preview a feature
source. If Total Entries says -1 then the feature source isn't configured
correctly.
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You'll need to do some troubleshooting.
First, ensure that your shp feature source returns rows in the preview without
the join.
Next, ensure that your ODBC feature source returns rows from the database
table feature source. If you don't get anything, it's the ODBC feature source
that's not
If you're not already, use firebug or IE's developer tools (F10) to view
javascript error details
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If you're using 64-bit MapGuide you should stick with the 64-bit binaries.
This is the part where you're going to need to use dependency walker and track
down which dlls you're missing.
Put walker on your server and open gdal_MrSID.dll which should be in your
bin/gdal folder by now. Next
Question:
According to the MapGuide API documentation, an optional parameter for
MgFeatureService's UpdateFeatures() method is MgTransaction. What does an
MgTransaction object do?
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I have had great difficulties getting this feature to work, particularly
consuming with ArcGIS. The only GIS application that I could get to reliably
consume a MapGuide WFS was Gaia.
Consider this a difficult endeavor before setting aside time to research this
(particularly for an employer.)
Let's see.
I used MapGuide 2.4 and you're using MapGuide 2.5. Between those versions FDO
wasn't upgraded. What worked for me should work for you. The only difference is
you're using 64-bit; that will require different binaries.
Try this set of binaries:
What dlls you need will depend on which version of MapGuide OS you have because
different versions use different version of FDO. Version 2.4 and 2.5 use FDO
3.8, I believe, and the newest 2.6 uses FDO 3.9.
What version of MapGuide are you using?
You also need different dlls depending on if you
Before you start creating Mr Sid raster feature sources, you should know that
MapGuide Open Source does not support Mr Sid by default. You need to install
the .dlls manually (a fairly complicated process.) Have you tried creating
rasters in other formats such as tiff or png? If you haven't you
Can you tell us more about the symbol and how it was created? What kind of
resource is it?
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MapGuide Open Source 2.5.2
Maestro 5.1
ASP.NET + C# programming code (.NET 4.0)
Hello, all
I've been researching the feasibility of implementing a new function for our
GIS product. First, I'd like to query if the following scenario is plausible:
1. User identifies an
Thanks for the response, Jackie
Is there anything in the web api that can act as a lock/release mechanism so
that updates don't collide? I noticed in the MgFeatureService there is an
MgTransaction class. Is that something I could use to prevent update conflicts?
This is just a guess, but it sounds like that sort of thing might happen if you
load the xml into the SetSelectionXml function after that particular session
string has expired.
Not saying that's what it, but that's where I would start looking if it were me.
This is a very nice, thanks, Jackie.
How do you think the improved performance will compare with sdf feature sources?
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I struggle with events related to mapguide because I don't really understand
them. Several times a day we get logs like
A process serving application pool 'MapGuide25AppPool' suffered a fatal
communication error with the World Wide Web Publishing Service. The process id
was '17544'. The data
There has been talk in the past of improving/re-writing mgcooker to make its
tile generation more efficient. Not sure if that's considered a component of
Maestro, but since this is the last version, will there still be plans of
implementing those improvements?
Yup, not having to know the meters-per-unit in advance in order to use the far
superior official method will help new users a lot. It takes a bit of
research to figure out what the official method is and how to use it and not
everyone will know to check that radio button.
That's super nice. Thanks, Jackie.
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I don't use the SVN feature.
Our application is heavily modified and is managed by our own subversion
repository.
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You say you don't have that problem in Ajax, but I actually had that problem in
Ajax before. I just figured I messed with my ajaxmappane.templ file too much.
Here's a link to the post about it that contains my workaround. I know you're
problem is in Fusion, but the idea was to force the map to
Will the PHP upgrade have a likely chance of altering the web server API in a
way that might impact source code using existing API syntax?
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Okay, that's good to hear. Thanks.
Follow-up question: it looks like heartbleed is affecting servers that run
Apache. I'm assuming that MGOS installations using IIS aren't affected?
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So, for whatever reason, my MapGuide installation of 2.5.2's
mapviewernet/setselection.aspx was throwing Request Validation has detected a
potentially dangerous client input value errors whenever I used the
SetSelectionXml function in javascript. Not really sure why it was doing that
since the
What kind of values are in in your column? Are they actual timestamps like in a
DateTime field, or are they strings with just years like “2005”, “2007”, etc?
This will effect what kinds of functions you’ll need to use to convert the data.
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Quick question:
Is there any particular reason why MapGuide Open Source installs with the
thread safe version of the PHP binaries. Is it possible to run on
non-thread-safe binaries instead? My impression is non-thread safe binaries
should be faster when using FastCGI.
I use:
MapGuide Open
Makes sense to me. Thanks for the answer
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This reminds me of a question I wanted to ask:
Is having multiple themes in a single layer or having multiple layers from an
exploded theme have better performance? (Assuming all exploded layers are
turned on compared to the single themed layer.)
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Ah, I see. I was trying to align labels along a line layer. If horizontal
alignment doesn't work on line layers then that explains it. I'll just remake
the shp file to use point data instead.
Thanks
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MGOS 2.4
So, I've been tinkering with label styles for layers in Maestro for a while and
it looks like Horizontal Alignment setting doesn't do anything. It doesn't have
any drop down options other than Center and entering integer values does
nothing. Entering other string
That's true, but the GetFeatureInfo requests tends to return data in xml
format. I haven't tried it, but maybe try just putting a GetFeatureInfo URL
request in the tooltip section in Maestro? If it works at all just raw xml will
show up. Pretty sure that's not what you want, though.
I implemented a workaround for this problem. Still not sure of the actual
cause, though.
In the ShowBaseGroup() function in ajaxmappane.templ add Refresh(); to the end
of the function. This forces the map to refresh whenever base map group is
activated. This will make redundant refreshes for
I had the idea of using the rendering service to create high dpi map images
with custom dimensions. Before mg-rest making custom printouts was kind of
tricky. We can use the rendering service to produce images of the map
definition in its default load state, but not a custom version with
According to Fiddler, it looks like I'm not getting GETTILEIMAGE requests until
I refresh the map after activating the group. Activating the group the first
time does nothing.
Sorry for the late response, by the way.
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Is there any way to use the rendering service APIs to create images of
LayerDefinitions instead of MapDefinitions?
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Maybe I just messed up my ajaxmappane.templ file after tampering with it for so
long, but I want to make sure this isn't happening for anyone else.
Whenever I open the print quick plot and then try to select multiple feature
using
I just noticed that quickplot does a couple other strange things. If you open
in it in IE10 it will open 5 times. Also if you try to create a selection
programmatically like
.cs:
queryOptions.SetFilter(+Field+ = +FieldValue.ToString()+);
featureReader =
Thank you, Jackie and Remy for your responses.
I can confirm that my WMS works perfectly in Gaia, as well as other sensible
applications like QGIS, so it seems to be functioning correctly.
As for the SLD. I’m not sure what’s supposed to make sense with this ArcGIS
situation. Really I’m just
Thanks, Remy
I have tried all of the WMS versions that MapGuide supports. I have all of the
awd documents configured and they all work in Gaia and QGIS.
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I'm trying to read a MapGuide WMS service with ArcMAP and its looks like I'm
able to get the layer and read the correct bounding box. When I get properties
for the layer in ArcMAP it doesn't have any styling properties. I'm figuring
the a the culprit is the fact that mapguide does have support
That sounds like a pretty clear-cut way of solving it if we're sure you'll only
ever need to manage two sets of permissions. It sounds tough to scale if new
users with new permissions are added, but if the situation only requires the
two users then it will be fast to implement and fulfill the
MGOS 2.4 32bit
Maestro 5.1
Windows Server 2003 R3
I have a tiled basemap group containing a single raster layer made from some
aerial images in TIFF format. The group is not set to be displayed on map on
map load, however, when the group is activated, the aerial isn't displayed. If
I refresh
For something like that you would have to create programming logic with the web
server API.
If I was the one who needed to implement what you described I would start by
creating a database of some kind to store user account information along with
some parameters for permissions (access to
I'm pretty sure MGOS 2.5 still uses GDAL version 1.9 so this old posting for
installing ECW support on MGOS 2.4 should still be relevant. The posting should
contain the url for the correct dlls.
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Step-by-Step-for-ECW-and-MGOS-2-4-td4995445.html#a4995528
If I was in your situation and couldn't even get that far, I'd delete the
resource using the mapagent directly which can be accessed from
http://YourDomain/mapguide/mapagent/index.html.
Click the Resource link and the DeleteResource. In Resource ID enter the path
the resource and click Submit.
I've gotten that Document not found error sometimes for reasons I don't
understand either. I've fixed it by simply renaming the resource in Maestro and
then deleting that. If it doesn't let you rename, try restarting the mapguide
service
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Like you've probably noticed, it's tricky to know exactly one dlls are right
for your MapGuide. I can tell your link to gisinternals is on the right track.
Based on the file name you've got the bitness correct (x64.) The other factor
is the 1-9-0, which refers to the FDO version that MapGuide
MGOS 2.4
Maestro 5.0.0
Windows Server 2003 r2
Hello, all
When I create an invoke URL custom command the window it opens doesn't have the
toolbar. I want the users to be able to access the print options normally
available. Is there a way to open these windows with the toolbar?
Thanks for all
is the menubar=yes, in the window.open() call. This
would apply to every window launched this way, though, I can't say I figured
out how to make individual custom commands launch with different window
properties.
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Can you add a refresh command to the context menu or task menu and use it in
those places?
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Are you talking about making a single layer resource whose feature class
comprises of more than one image available from the WMS?
If so, then by default a single image provided by the WMS is made into a single
feature class which can be turned into a single layer. In this case you could
have
PM, Berg, James [via OSGeo.org] wrote:
When I get those errors clicking the Advanced button for a WMS feature source
it’s because the server doesn’t exist or I entered the URL string wrong.
Maestro should be able to at least see the service if it exists. Also, your get
capabilities url isn’t
When I get those errors clicking the Advanced button for a WMS feature source
it’s because the server doesn’t exist or I entered the URL string wrong.
Maestro should be able to at least see the service if it exists. Also, your get
capabilities url isn’t working for me, by the way. If you can
Hi, Jackie. Thanks for the news.
If installer support is dropped for XP and server 2003, will there be some
alternative installation method for those OS's? Any recommendations for getting
2.6 working on XP/2003 without the installer?
Thanks
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There's no setting like that so if want a layer selected you'll need it turned
on.
You can, however, make it appear like de-activated layers are being selected.
First, you need an invisible version of the layer that is selectable. Hide the
layer from the legend also.
Second, create visible
Sounds like you’re under a lot of restrictions. That does make things tougher.
I’m not a developer (so someone correct me if I’m wrong,) but since the image
format setting is in serverconfig.ini that tells me the setting is
install-wide. Being able to choose a new format for individual
If you can get into the administrator you could try adding another publisher
account and use that. You can also try changing the password for the
Administrator account which is something you'll be doing for security reasons
anyway.
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It looks like the applications in IIS normally created during the mapguide
installation have retained the original paths to the (x86) program files folder
for some reason (or something like that). I wonder if you viewed the
dotnetviewersample application in IIS manager if the local path is
I'm planning to upgrade to 2.5 pretty soon myself so I'm interested in what to
expect.
There are multiple config files involved in a MapGuide install. Can you post
the original message for a clue on what file it was exactly?
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I was about to write an explanation about how the ZoomToView function worked in
the AJAX viewer, but then I noticed you're using FUSION. I'm not very familiar
with FUSION, but I get the feeling that ZoomToView might just be an AJAX map
function. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I can't say I've tried making a filter expression as complex as what you're
describing so I can't say exactly how to do it, but there's a section in the
MapGuide Developer's Guide about filtering feature queries. It even has an
example for filtering based on a range of dates.
Hopefully that
Thank you for the hotfix, Jackie. As a minor heads-up to those using these you
might need to clear your application pool before overwriting the files
otherwise the OS will demand that you close programs using the files.
I'm no expert on mapguide, but as someone who develops with mapguide I
The number of tiles generated by MGCooker with default settings can be extreme.
Before running the cooker check the Use Official Method and fill out the
Meters pr. unit text box. Follow these instructions to use the mpu calculator
included:
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Hello, all
My MapGuide application uses the main frame method ExecuteMapAction(10) to zoom
to selections on the map. However, every time I use those functions after
opening the quick plot window I get a javascript
I'd say that's exactly what I'm encountering.
I'll reproduce the problem in Sheboygan and post a more detailed code sample
soon.
Thanks
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Alright, so here's how I reproduce the javascript error:
Copy the attached files to \MapGuide\Web\www\dotnetviewersample\overview
(backup the original overviewmain.aspx if needed)
Open mapguide/dotnetviewersample/ajaxviewersample.aspx in a web browser and
click the Zoom hyperlink. Reset the
I have to admit that I’m lacking some knowledge about the OGR provider and
ESRI. I probably just don’t know any better.
The ideal outcome would be to create a feature source out of the service and
create viewable layers from it. So the actual maps and tiles, yes.
From:
I'd say that sums it up pretty well. I would really like to simplify things the
way you described, but server A with all the data belongs to someone else.
We wanted to use WMS/WFS from the start because we know how to consume those in
MapGuide, but the data is only available in this unfamiliar
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Hi, all.
This is more of a confirmation rather than a question. I'd like to know if MGOS
can use a REST or SOAP service from an ArcGIS server.
My research doesn't give much positive feedback. This mailing post seems to
Ah, I see. I had a feeling the image format had something to do with it.
Just as an update, we managed to solve our WMS problem. We started using a
different WMS:
http://geoint.lmic.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/wms?VERSION=1.3.0SERVICE=WMSREQUEST=GetCapabilities
which is almost the same as the previous
function also….. the result, my map
still zoomed in or out after wheelling.
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