| 23 | | This section brefly describes the problem set, and the proposed solution in general terms. It should be deliberately short, a couple of sentences or so. |
| | 23 | This document describes a proposal for adding a cartographic styling engine to !MapGuide. The main goal is to be able to handle point, line, and fill styles as sophisticated as AutoCAD as well as being able to represent all symbols described in |
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| | 25 | http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/fgdc_gds/geolsymstd/fgdc-geolsym-allnoplates.pdf |
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| | 27 | We are aware that this is a high standard we want to live up to and it is currently beyond our ability to fully test against this standard. At this point though we still believe that we can create all symbols with the proposed solution represented by these two major requirements. |
| | 28 | Note: the FGDC standard goes beyond line styles, fill styles, and point styles – we are ignoring anything else in that document. |
