Hello, Im Kenneth! I came across OL about a month ago and i must say im rather impressed with the functionality... unfortunately ive run into a few issues that i am unable to really determine an answer to. I would appreciate any "detailed" help i could get.
1. Ive been able to get a complete Suite up and running with WMS/Rendering/Tiling/Etc. now im trying to create the map interface. Ive been rather successful with the basic features and have gotten a pretty good map running off tiles, Text Layer and Popups etc. But the problem im running into now is i would like to import a KML file filled with points and display them with custom icons on the map. Ive got that working. But they are just points, no real way to determine what they are. Ive seen various posts and forums where people have been able to do some cool stuff, but i dont quite understand how it was done. Ideally i would like to mimic the view of openflights.org where their airports are loaded, have small labels under them, and when you hover over the point it gives a tooltip. I know how to do click popups, and mouse over popups, but i would really just like to have a label displayed near the point and perhaps a mouse over extended label. The idea behind what im doing is that the kml file will be rendered and sent to the server, so the server needs to be able to plot / parse all the points on the map dynamically via the OpenLayers.Layer.GML (Format.KML) concept. But perhaps im just missing something somewhere.... which occassionally i do, there are no labels, even when i put in stylemaps, etc. Any help would be wonderful! Thanks 2. Ive been able to import kml files into my GML layer, it plots and i have a load of pretty points. But if i need to access the point via programming in order to get it's "attributes" whether its the Coord or name, how do i get that information? If a kml layer has say 10 points on it, and i want to get the data programmatically in order to do something with it.... then is there a way to identify it without a click/getfeature? which is probably the only way...... anyways im still learning and i havent done anything with programming in years so im having to brush up on alot of stuff.... i would appreciate any help that someone can provide. Thanks! Kenneth -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Questions-from-a-Newbie-tp5439265p5439265.html Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users