Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of maestro/UserGuides/FileFeatureSource


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Oct 1, 2008, 5:44:27 AM (16 years ago)
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    44== Using file based data ==
    5 Many applications produce files with data, such as a spreadsheet, ESRI Shape files or MapInfo TAB files.
     5Many applications produce files with data, such as a spreadsheet, ESRI Shape files or !MapInfo TAB files.
    66!MapGuide has its own spatial file format, named SDF. SDF is based on SQLite, but not compatible with
    77a SQLite tools. !MapGuide also supports SQLite databases with spatial data, using an FDO provider.
     
    1010When you install !Mapguide, it only has a subset of the avalible FDO providers. This will hopefully be fixed in the future, but for now you can manually upgrade you FDO provider collection. These are the steps required to update your FDO providers:
    1111 1. Stop the !MapGuide service
    12  1. Remove the FDO folder (found in C:\Program Files\MapGuideOpenSource2.0\Server\Bin on Windows)
     12 1. Remove the FDO folder (found in C:\Program Files\!MapGuideOpenSource2.0\Server\Bin on Windows)
    1313 1. Download the latest FDO package for [http://download.osgeo.org/fdo/3.3.1/fdosdk-win32-3.3.1.tar.gz Windows] or [http://download.osgeo.org/fdo/3.3.1/fdosdk-rhel4-3.3.1.tar.gz Linux]
    1414 1. Extract the archive, and rename "Bin" to "FDO"