Google Popup from OpenLayers and MapGuide/AIMS – gone!

Like many people yesterday, I noticed all my MapGuide/AIMS sites suddenly had a “Map Data” popup in the middle of my map.

Why is this here today?

So how to fix it?
Opent the file:
C:\Program Files\OSGeo\MapGuide\Web\www\fusion\lib\OpenLayers\theme\default\style.css

and add the following around line 30:

.olLayerGoogleV3.olLayerGooglePoweredBy {  
    visibility:hidden !important;
    bottom: 15px !important; 
}
.olLayerGooglePoweredBy.olLayerGoogleV3.gmnoprint {
visibility:hidden !important;
}

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ContourGPS Video and MapGuide (AIMS 2012)

What is a ContourGPS camera?

A small light full HD video camera with GPS capabilities. The GPS adds speed, location and elevation to the picture. The GPS receiver automaps the three essentials up to four times per second. The GPS synchronizes with your video and displays a second by second replay via Google Maps, Bing or OpenStreetMaps.  All within the MapGuide/AIMS 2012 environment.

1. Upload Video and Associated GPS file to web server (code loads the GPS points into SQL Server and creates path in map).

2. Video list in Interface and choose video to watch.

3. Video plays and animated point follows the path in sync with the video.

Mobile viewers for iPad

Gordon’s been using the Autodesk Infrastructure Map Server 2012 (AIMS/MapGuide) mobileviewer;  customizing mobile viewers for the iPad with out-of-the-box Open Layers code to search and draw points using Google Geocoder API.

Groundhog Day – Arrow Geomatics Inc 13th Year

Wiarton Willie does not see his shadow, thus 6 more weeks of winter.

Where is Wiarton?  Click this link to see it in OpenStreetMap.

Flow Arrows and Custom Linetypes in AIMS 2012 (aka MapGuide)

So a lot of people want to recreate the look and feel of the maps they created in AutoCAD, even though precise engineering drawings are not cartographically accurate.

That being said there is definely a way to recreate the flow arrows and Leaders from AutoCAD in AIMS.

If you have a line layer in AutoCAD you will either have to export it to SDF, SHP, Oracle Spatial, SQL Server Spatial, or any other “FDO” type data.

Connect to that data in AIMS and modify the layer style in AIMS 2012 Studio.

In the Style Lne dialog:

1. Ensure to use “Map” units
2. Chose your units (feet or meters typically)
3. Under Symbol and Style, click Add Symbol.

 4. Under Select Symbol, choose Triangle.

5.  For height, type your height in feet or if you have it as a column in your data, choose that.

6. For width, do the same as step 5.

7. Click Advanced.

8. If you want to put an arrow at the beginning of the line, enter 0 for Offset from Start, do not type anything for “from end” and set the Repeat interval to 0.

9. For Rotation, enter: 90

If you change the Offset for the End to be 0 and the beginning empty, the arrow will appear at the other end of the line.

This is very effective for AutoCAD Leaders and Flow Arrows.  Also, you can use text instead of triangle, to get a custom line.

For example: Choosing Text instead of Triangle, you can repeat the text along the line to create a custom line time

The cool thing is you can do this in Map 3D 2012 as well, for any FDO based layer.

 Also, you can save as a .LAYER file, load back into AutoCAD Map 2011 and use the Publish to MapGuide to retro your advanced layer definition into MapGuide 2011.

 Normally you would have to hack around in XML to get this to work with MapGuide 2011.

 If you have Map 3D 2012 you can now create .LAYER files with all this neat stylization and use the .LAYER retroactively.

Instantly Publish your DWG from AutoCAD Map 3D to AIMS (MapGuide) but why would you?

Alright, I love the ability to push my DWG from AutoCAD Map 3D into MapGuide – I almost never need to open MapGuide/AIMS Studio.

So what is the issue?

AutoCAD Map 3D has had a great tool for creating custom properties for every object in your AutoCAD drawing: it’s called “Object Data”.   For example, if you have a polyline, text or block that you want to add your own information to, such as diameter or data installed.

So what happens to this amazing custom Property called Object Data when you publish it to MapGuide aka Autodesk Infrastruture Map Server 2012?

Watch this video to find out:

Introduction to MapGuide OpenSource – from FOSS4G in Denver

It looks like my technical tutorial from FOSS4G last September is now posted.

MapGuide 2.2 Tutorial (Part 1 of 2)

MapGuide 2.2 Tutorial (Part 2 of 2)

This is where I actually use the Youtube videos seen at http://youtube.com/mapguideguy/

 

Dongjin Xing’s – Introduction to MapGuide Enterprise (circa MapGuide 2007) Programming

This Video was put on the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) for MapGuide 2007 – it is a few years old, but it is a great introduction to programming with MapGuide in .NET.

ArcGIS 10 and AutoCAD Map 3D 2012: drop ArcSDE and all the dll dependancies!

Another big topic: accessing ArcGIS Server 10 with AutoCAD Map 3D. Usually you will see demos and blog posts on how to move the dlls of the ArcGIS Runtime or Map install into the FDO folder of AutoCAD Map 3D so you can use ArcSDE.

What if you usually connect ArcMap with Direct Connect and don’t even want to use SDE?
What if you only have Map 3D and don’t want to buy the ArcGIS runtime?

In this video, I show the traditional ArcSDE way of connecting to ArcGIS 10 server, and then I show how you can set up your ArcGIS data so that it can be viewed AND edited by 3rd party products such as AutoCAD Map 3D 2012.

DWG to FDO: Moving Blocks to SDF (with Attributes)

I have had a lot of questions lately on how to move complex DWG files with Rotated Blocks with Attributes to FDO.

(Feature Data Objects include storage such as Oracle Spatial, SQL Server Spatial, SHP, SDF, mySQL, etc.)

Moving from DWG to Universal Spatial Storage (USS) is key for any organization wanting to share data or maintain a “Truth” to their assets.

I have created a video that shows how to take Blocks with 3 Attributes and export them to a SDF file – which can then be put in the SQL Server or Oracle etc.

I use the existing block as a symbol with FDO, so please keep your individual DWG block libraries on your system.  For example, I have a folder with all my utility blocks – each block exploded in an individual DWG file.