Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Adding Text to map.... possible?

2009-03-20 Thread Andreas Hocevar
Hi Peter, On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:16 AM, plen petera...@earthlink.net wrote: I am using the OpenLayers drawing controls to add points, lines, and polygons.  Our customer would like to also add text to the map, in addition to the other objects.  This would allow the user to add some text (ex.

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Adding Text to map.... possible?

2009-03-20 Thread plen
Andreas, Thanks for the reply. I am happy to hear that others have thought of this type of capability. I will look for the functionality in later OL versions. Thanks again - Peter Andreas Hocevar-2 wrote: Hi Peter, On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:16 AM, plen petera...@earthlink.net wrote:

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Adding Text to map.... possible?

2009-03-20 Thread ABateman
Hi Peter, Couldn't you use a Marker's layer - like the markersTextLayer example to do this? -Anita plen wrote: Hello, I am using the OpenLayers drawing controls to add points, lines, and polygons. Our customer would like to also add text to the map, in addition to the other objects.

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Adding Text to map.... possible?

2009-03-20 Thread plen
Anita, I haven't worked with marker text layers before but that doesn't appear to be what I am looking for anyway. The text layer seems to just display some text in the popup based on a title and description placed in a file. We create our own marker popup due to some content and styling

[OpenLayers-Users] Adding Text to map.... possible?

2009-03-19 Thread plen
Hello, I am using the OpenLayers drawing controls to add points, lines, and polygons. Our customer would like to also add text to the map, in addition to the other objects. This would allow the user to add some text (ex. Drive straight on this road) and place it on the map (pin it to a geo