Why Develop with the New MapGuide Technology

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Why Develop with the New
MapGuide Technology?
The next generation of web mapping technology is
now available from Autodesk, ready to provide a
powerful distribution tool for your maps and spatial
data. Why develop with the new technology? The
answer may surprise you.
The new web mapping platform goes far beyond Autodesk MapGuide?6.5 software,
providing a completely new architecture, new programming language support, new data
access methods, new viewing options, and a new authoring environment.
The new platform is available as open source software (MapGuide Open Source) and will
soon be available as a commercial version (Autodesk MapGuide?Enterprise). For simplicity,
the new product is referred to in this paper as “MapGuide.” All concepts discussed here
apply to both the open source and commercial versions of the new product. Autodesk
MapGuide?Studio will be available separately.
This paper provides an overview of some of the features of the new MapGuide technology
and its components. It describes the main components in a general way before moving into
a more detailed description of each component and its benefits.
The new MapGuide technology can be installed, customized, and developed on multiple
platforms,…