Re: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-16 Thread gingerbbm
This is really excellent information. So as I understand it if I convert my Oracle tables to SDF, and use the SDFs as layers in a Base Layer group, then seed the tile cache using Zac's tool, it'll fly. My next question is whether MapGuide will use the same set of tiles for base layers that are

Re: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-16 Thread gingerbbm
gingerbbm wrote: My next question is whether MapGuide will use the same set of tiles for base layers that are referenced in several different map definitions. I assume it will... can somebody confirm this? Well I've had a look in the Repositories/TileCache folder and it's obvious that

RE: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-16 Thread Jason Birch
Fusion or the Ajax viewer, I think you can work around this by including two MapGuide maps, one tiled and one untiled. My hope is that a future version of Fusion (2.0?) will allow you to do this as well. Jason -Original Message- From: gingerbbm Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] Generate map

Re: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-15 Thread gingerbbm
zspitzer wrote: have you tried using base layer groups rather than layer groups? Forgive my ignorance. Use the base layer groups to generate tiles? Or improve performance? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Generate-map-tiles-from-Oracle-data-tp1336571p1336681.html

Re: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-15 Thread George McLean
Have you looked at this tool? http://www.websoftdev.com/download.cfm Also, I have some php scripts that I used to make tiles that I could send you if you are interested. George McLean gingerbbm wrote: Dear all Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? Given the troubles we've had

Re: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-15 Thread gingerbbm
Hi George Yes, I downloaded it, but it looks out of date to my eye. One of the instructions is to replace the DLLs it comes with, with those from the Enterprise bin folder. But the names of these files are mostly different so I assumed it just doesn't work with the latest software. I sent

RE: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-15 Thread gingerbbm
Thanks, but as I understand, for Zac's tool to work, the tiles need to exist first. I need to create tiles for non-tiled data held in Oracle. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Generate-map-tiles-from-Oracle-data-tp1336571p1337398.html Sent from the MapGuide Users mailing

RE: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-15 Thread Jason Birch
something vital from your initial requirements :) Jason -Original Message- From: gingerbbm Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data Thanks, but as I understand, for Zac's tool to work, the tiles need to exist first. I need to create tiles for non-tiled data held

RE: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-15 Thread gingerbbm
Jason Birch wrote: It may be that I am missing something vital from your initial requirements :) OK, let me try and explain our predicament in a bit more detail. We have MapGuide serving maps using data held in Oracle spatial tables. So for example we have one table holding all the roads

RE: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-15 Thread Dave Wilson
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gingerbbm Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:55 AM To: mapguide-users@lists.osgeo.org Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data Jason Birch wrote: It may be that I am missing something vital from your initial

[mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-15 Thread gingerbbm
Dear all Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? Given the troubles we've had getting MapGuide to generate maps on-the-fly from our Oracle data, and given the fact that we've spent considerable time doing getting the theming right, perhaps there's something that plugs into or uses MapGuide

RE: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-15 Thread Jason Birch
: gingerbbm Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data We have MapGuide serving maps using data held in Oracle spatial tables. So for example we have one table holding all the roads for the UK. What we want to do is create a set of tiles at various zoom levels for this data so

RE: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-15 Thread gingerbbm
I'm amazed that I've been goofing around with MapGuide for months and yet I've only just discovered Base Layers. Thank you all so much for continuing to say use base layers. I just tried it and the tiling is great, even on our crummy development box. I've got a few more things to try... but

Re: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-15 Thread Zac Spitzer
have you tried using base layer groups rather than layer groups? On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:20 PM, gingerbbm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? Given the troubles we've had getting MapGuide to generate maps on-the-fly from our Oracle data, and

RE: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-15 Thread gingerbbm
Hmm. Is there a way to configure MapGuide to exclusively use a tile cache? The reason I ask is that the initial enumeration of spatial objects in the Oracle schema is really slow. Jason states that: using the Base Layer Group functionality in MapGuide would mean that requests beyond the

Re: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-15 Thread Zac Spitzer
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:55 AM, gingerbbm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. Is there a way to configure MapGuide to exclusively use a tile cache? The reason I ask is that the initial enumeration of spatial objects in the Oracle schema is really slow. Jason states that: Any static base data

RE: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-15 Thread Jason Birch
Yep, tiles are cache and therefore it will bypass oracle completely once the tiled cache is seeded I think that there may still be some issues due to the schema fetches that are run during initialization. These will be be alleviated somewhat in 2.1, and in newer versions of Fusion, but I

Re: [mapguide-users] Generate map tiles from Oracle data

2008-10-15 Thread Zac Spitzer
I'm pretty much certain if the user has access and the tile exists, depending on the viewing technology the schema is bypassed. The tile cache service will actually also create tile folders for scales which are outside the scale range if requested. Basically, it comes down to legends in viewers,