Thank you for the answers to those questions. I will be looking into them as I continue to develop my game. I also have been looking into a CSS implementation that may be more in line with what I am trying to do. Since basically all of the map information is stored in a database on the server, it may be just as efficient or faster to generate map data to a cache and then load that page on demand.
Just trying to get the biggest bang for my processor cycles. :) OpenLayers is definitely a nice package, but it may be much bigger than what I need to perform the tasks I'm trying to do. Of course, this is a problem you can run into when using an existing framework in any application. On 1/20/10, dev-requ...@openlayers.org <dev-requ...@openlayers.org> wrote: > Send Dev mailing list submissions to > dev@openlayers.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > dev-requ...@openlayers.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > dev-ow...@openlayers.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Dev digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Hiya (Brian Kittrell) > 2. Re: Hiya (Marc Jansen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:45:01 -0600 > From: Brian Kittrell <kittrel...@gmail.com> > Subject: [OpenLayers-Dev] Hiya > To: Openlayers <dev@openlayers.org> > Message-ID: > <ebe1470a1001191545h3bff15ewc065776aee275...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi, > > I just wanted to drop in a message and see if anyone could help me > out. I am developing a browser-based MMO game, and I need mapping > functionality for it. Basically, I was wondering if anyone could > point me to some tutorials regarding the following topics that break > things down to a non-javascript developer. > > 1.) The ability to use the map library with an image instead of using > a map server. > 2.) The ability to add click-able hotspots to the map at specific > coordinates (with URL-encoded GET variables, etc.) > 3.) If there is an ability to draw shapes on the map of different > colors (to represent borders of places). Not an extremely important > feature, but I'd like to have any suggestions or recommendations with > regards to this. (Maybe several overlay layers for each different > territory aligned to the image somehow?) > > I'm a PHP developer and have little experience in javascript. I can > follow tutorials, but I can't really write javascript from scratch > like I can with PHP. Any/all help is appreciated in advance. Thanks. > > - Brian > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:59:32 +0100 > From: Marc Jansen <jan...@terrestris.de> > Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Dev] Hiya > To: kittrel...@gmail.com > Cc: Openlayers <dev@openlayers.org> > Message-ID: <4b56d404.1080...@terrestris.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi Brian, > > some answers inline. > > Brian Kittrell wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just wanted to drop in a message and see if anyone could help me >> out. I am developing a browser-based MMO game, and I need mapping >> functionality for it. Basically, I was wondering if anyone could >> point me to some tutorials regarding the following topics that break >> things down to a non-javascript developer. >> >> 1.) The ability to use the map library with an image instead of using >> a map server. >> > > Not a tutorial, but an example: > http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/image-layer.html > > you should be able to add more Image layers that are being displayed at > various zoomlevels. > >> 2.) The ability to add click-able hotspots to the map at specific >> coordinates (with URL-encoded GET variables, etc.) >> > > Maybe > http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/select-feature-multilayer.html is > what you are searching for? > Notice how the Features of the layers are selectable and have an action > that runs when a feuture is selected. > The vector-features can be styled to (more or less) whatever you want. > >> 3.) If there is an ability to draw shapes on the map of different >> colors (to represent borders of places). Not an extremely important >> feature, but I'd like to have any suggestions or recommendations with >> regards to this. (Maybe several overlay layers for each different >> territory aligned to the image somehow?) >> > > I'd suggest a Vector-layer with polygon features as well. If there are > many regions you need to draw, I would definitely go with a mapserver. > > See http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/vector-features.html for the > creation and styling of vector features. > >> I'm a PHP developer and have little experience in javascript. I can >> follow tutorials, but I can't really write javascript from scratch >> like I can with PHP. Any/all help is appreciated in advance. Thanks. >> > > regards, > Marc > >> - Brian >> _______________________________________________ >> Dev mailing list >> Dev@openlayers.org >> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >> >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > > End of Dev Digest, Vol 40, Issue 17 > *********************************** > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
