a'ite, this question is neither mapserver-specific nor OL-specific (two technologies that I am using gung-ho right now), but both would be involved in developing something that I describe below --
you know, how in Google Maps you can type pretty much any location's name, and if it finds a match in its database, Google Maps zooms to the boundary of that location. For example, if I type http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Zurich,+Switzerland or http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Dane+County,+WI or http://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+York+City the map zooms to the bounds of that location. This is what I want to develop, for the entire world. I guess the starting point would be the geonomes database, except, if I understand correctly, geonames does not have the bounds of locations. Instead, it has only the centroids of locations. A better way might be something like the following -- I am using Google Maps as my base layer anyway. Could I somehow submit a search through my application to the Google Maps base layer, return the bounds and zoom to that? Thoughts? Suggestions? -- Puneet Kishor_______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users