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Welcome to the MapGuide Best Practices Wiki
This Wiki is established to share Best Practices for Autodesk MapGuide® Enterprise and MapGuide Open Source. Please refer to the respective main websites for additional product information:
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MapGuide Components
Configuration & Deployment
This sections contains best practices in terms of MapGuide configuration and application deployment.
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Map & Layer Settings
The new paradigm with Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise is predominantly server based, that is, the server handles most of the data processing and user interaction. As such, you can use the following tweaks to control the amount of processing the server needs to perform while authoring your maps and layers with Autodesk MapGuide® Studio.
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Web Server Optimizations
Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise works on two supported web servers, Apache and IIS, each of which has its own performance tuning and optimizing techniques. In addition, PHP, JSP, and .NET all have techniques that can help optimize specific implementations as well.
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MapGuide Service Tweaks
The Autodesk MapGuide Server service or daemon uses the parameters specified in the serverconfig.ini file. Tweaking some of the FeatureServiceProperties parameters can help improve feature service request times.
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Data Source Optimizations
Performance enhancements can be made on the data sources themselves with the use of database optimization and the right file-based format for the application.
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Topobase Web Optimizations
Autodesk Topobase Web is built on Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise and inherently can benefit from the best practices mentioned on this site. In addition, there are a few tweaks and best practices that can be adopted specifically on Autodesk Topobase, and those are listed here.
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Raster Optimizations
Optimizing Rasters for MapGuide.
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Web Mapping Service
Best practices on setting up MapGuide to deliver WMS services
Web Feature Service
Best practices / Tips and Tricks on setting up MapGuide to deliver WFS services
Viewers Configuration
Best practices for customizing the default Ajax and Fusion viewers provided by MapGuide
Open Layers Integration
This section contains best practices for integrating OpenLayers with MapGuide.
Migration Best Practices
This section contains best practices for migration from your current platform to the MapGuide Open Source or Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise platform
Other Tips and Tricks
Sometimes there are problems that you may run into that have a simple workaround.
