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          FDO OGR Provider Installation Notes

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1. Compiling

Windows:

Use the provided Visual Studio 2005 project file.
Make sure to set the correct locations for the OGR and FDO headers
and libraries in the project's Properties pages. GDAL/OGR must be
compiled and available before you compile the provider.

If your OGR is compiled with components that require extra libraries
to be linked in, you will need to add these to the list under
"Additional Libraries". An example is OCI.lib for Oracle support.


Linux:

Assuming you have GDAL 1.4.0 and FDO 3.x.x propertly installed, 
use the provided compile.sh script to compile the provider.
You may need to update the script to point to the correct location
of the FDO headers and library.

The script  assumes that GDAL is installed in a global location like 
/usr/include and /usr/lib.

The output of this script will be the OGR provider library.


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2. Installing the provider


For both Windows and Linux, do the following:

    * Copy the provider library (OGRProvider.dll or libOGRProvider.so) to
      the location of FDO libraries. On Linux this is /usr/local/fdo-3.x.x/lib.
      On Windows, it would be in the \FDO subdirectory of where your MapGuide Server
      component is installed, e.g.
        C:\Program Files\MapGuideOpenSource\Server\Bin\FDO


    * Add an entry for the provider to the providers.xml file.

        <FeatureProvider>
            <Name>OSGeo.OGR.0.1</Name> 
            <DisplayName>FDO Provider for OGR</DisplayName> 
            <Description>Access to OGR data sources</Description> 
            <IsManaged>False</IsManaged> 
            <Version>0.1.0.0</Version> 
            <FeatureDataObjectsVersion>3.3.0.0</FeatureDataObjectsVersion> 
            <LibraryPath>OGRProvider.dll</LibraryPath> 
       </FeatureProvider>

      Make sure you match the FDO version to whatever the other entries in the
      provider.xml are using (in this example it is 3.3.0.0).


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3. Using the provider in MapGuide

Connecting to an OGR data source in MapGuide Studio is done by creating
a new Data Connection to the OGR Provider and setting the two OGR connection 
properties.

The property named DataSource is an OGR connection string. For example
it could point to an SHP file or an Oracle table. See OGR documentation
at http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/ogr/ogr_formats.html for more
information.

The ReadOnly property indicates if the connection should be opened
for read only. Set that to TRUE unless you are sure the underlying
OGR driver supports write and you are going to use it to do inserts
and updates.


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4. Release Notes

So far the OGR provider has been (successfully) tested with:
    * SHP files
    * MapInfo files (.TAB)
    * Oracle Spatial
    * ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb)
    * PostGIS (on PostgreSQL 8.1.4)

Linux platforms tested:
    * Gentoo x86-64, g++ 3.4, g++ 4.1


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Last update:
March 22, 2007 Traian Stanev