On Tuesday, February 9, 2010, Matt Williamson <matthe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Devs, > > I posted this to the Users list, but the devs list might have made more > sense, since part of the question has to do with the vector behaviors sandbox > in SVN... > > I am looking for a way to load statically stored "tiles" full of marker > information, so I can do progressive disclosure of a large point dataset (and > I don't have access to Geoserver or similar server-side component). My maps > are spherical mercator/Google based, so loading the markers in tiles makes > sense. > > I found this post on the dev list, which sounds pretty much exactly like what > I want to do... > > http://openlayers.org/pipermail/dev/2009-January/004222.html > > But it was using stuff from the vector behaviors sandbox, which hasn't been > touched in a year, it looks like. > > So my question is: Is there a standard way to do something like this? From > static tile files on the server filesystem (probably GeoJSON format)? I know > the "right" answer is to set up a WFS server somewhere, but that's out of the > question in the short term. Plus, my point locations change very seldom, so > Geoserver would really be overkill anyway. > > I was going to try writing my own OpenLayers.Layer.Grid and OpenLayers.Tile > subclasses, but I wanted to check if there's an existing way to do this that > I've missed, or if the OpenLayers.Strategy.Grid stuff in the vector behaviors > sandbox stuff is still a valid way to go.
Hi. Just like the BBOX strategy the grid strategy sends requests with a BBOX filter so a web service that can "decode" that filter is assumed. Cheers, -- Eric Lemoine Camptocamp France SAS Savoie Technolac, BP 352 73377 Le Bourget du Lac, Cedex Tel : 00 33 4 79 44 44 96 Mail : eric.lemo...@camptocamp.com http://www.camptocamp.com _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
