Changes between Version 19 and Version 20 of MapGuideRfc107


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07/25/10 02:51:53 (14 years ago)
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yangte
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  • MapGuideRfc107

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    2828== Motivation ==
    29 MapGuide users want to allow easy pre-seeding of base map tiles, for example, to generate all the tiles of a map at one time, now they can call the API GetTile:
     29MapGuide users want to allow easy pre-seeding of base map tiles, for example, to generate all the tiles of a map at one time, now they can call the API !GetTile:
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    3131Existing API:
     
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    36 There's one problem with this existing API, suppose the user run a tool(like Maestro MgCooker) on the client PC to generate all the tiles of a map, the client will get the tile image from the server.
    37 Actually the user just want to generate the tiles on the server to make the rendering/navigation of a map more smooth. But the transfer of the tile image will increase the cost to finish this job(usually thousands of tiles will be generate).
     36There's one problem with this existing API, suppose the user run a tool(like !Maestro !MgCooker) on the client PC to generate all the tiles of a map, the client will get the tile images from the server.
     37Actually the user just want to generate the tiles on the server to make the rendering/navigation of a map more smooth. But the transfer of the tile images will increase the cost to finish this job(usually thousands of tiles will be generate).
    3838So this RFC want to add a NEW API !GenerateTile() which generate the tile on the server and return a bool value.
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