VERY COOL Jason!!!
Extremely interesting concepts...
The future is 'wide open' 😉
Warren M
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 07:13:58 +0000, Jason Birch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If anyone's interested in an example of how flexible the new MapGuide
> Open Source (and MapGuide Enterprise eventually) is, I have made public
> an experimental service that uses this application to serve City of
> Nanaimo vector data to Google Earth dynamically.
>
> If you have Google Earth installed, go to this page and click on the
> nanaimoMaster link:
>
> http://earth.nanaimo.ca/data.html
>
> As you zoom in, you will be able to see park points and parcel polygons,
> both of which link to PHP reports. Using the rich API (and with the
> assistance of an example script provided by Bob Bray at Autodesk) we
> serve different data depending on the view scale.
>
> These features are generated on-the-fly from data stored in SDF+ format.
> As you move around, Google Earth sends PHP the bounding coordinates of
> the current window. Once you are within a certain distance of the
> ground, these coordinates are used as a filter to a MGOS spatial query
> that accesses the SDF+ files through an FDO provider, and returns a
> result set of features in the current window. These features are then
> iterated and sent to Google Earth in KML format.
>
> You could as easily use this methodology to build an AJAX server that
> takes the current Google Local/Yahoo Maps/MSN Live Local bounding box
> and generates placemarks for you. Of course, I'm sure that the next
> version's HTML viewer will be good enough that there will be no desire
> to do this. 🙂
>
> Jason