Join Gordon Luckett for an in-depth discussion in this video Creating data connections with Maestro, part of Learning MapGuide Open Source.
- If you have files or databases…that are visible to the server,…such as Sequel server database,…or a folder of air photos,…you can point MapGuide to those files.…Data connections point to existing files.…But you need to ensure that you've uploaded…those files to the server.…Let's manually move some files up to our server.…In this case on my desktop I have…some RASTER files or air photographs.…There's a whole series of them.…I'm gonna copy them all.…And my network administrator has already…mapped a drive for me.…
It's my X drive.…So if I go to the X drive and go to UPLOAD,…and I paste them into RASTER,…it's now on my gis_server is my X drive.…I paste them up there.…Now I'm ready to connect MapGuide to that folder…under the UPLOAD RASTER.…On my drive it's the X.…But on their drive or on the server…it's actually C drive.…If you don't know where that file or folder is,…be sure to ask your network administrator…where that share was created.…So let's go to Maestro and create a connection.…
In order to connect Maestro to that data,…
Author
Gordon Luckett
Released
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Skill Level Beginner
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Introduction
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Welcome35s
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Using the exercise files1m 24s
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1. Understanding and Installing MapGuide
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2. Connecting and Loading Data with MapGuide Maestro
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Loading data using Maestro6m 51s
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3. Stylizing Data
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Creating polyline layers2m 57s
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Creating polygon layers3m 21s
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Creating raster layers1m 45s
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Creating thematic layers2m 43s
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Labeling vector layers4m 6s
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4. Maps
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Creating maps in Maestro5m 27s
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5. Basic Web Layouts
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Creating basic web layouts4m 47s
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6. Application Definitions
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Creating a QuickPlot4m 59s
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7. Publishing to the Web
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Publishing to the web1m 6s
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Publishing basic web layouts3m 40s
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Conclusion
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Next steps1m 44s
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