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Overview

MapGuide contains all of the features of a great desktop mapping component: Data access, rudimentary GIS, stylization and more.

Although the current build is tightly bound to a server service, it would be useful to create a build profile that provided a desktop developer to quickly add spatial visualisation and interactivity to their application.

It would also be nice if there was also a client-side application framework (A "thick-client" version of fusion) to complement the "desktop" version of MapGuide.

One roadblock to this would be the current reliance on Berkeley DBXML for the repository structure, as licensing for this module is too onerous for many desktop developers. Perhaps file-based XML storage could be an option?