Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Selecting a country

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Lemoine
On Jan 7, 2008 7:05 AM, David Pruitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does the example map at http://world.freemap.in/ accomplish this task? I looked at the code, and although I am new to OpenLayers and this whole WMS thing...it seems like it is making some WMS requests to a MapServer server. Yes

[OpenLayers-Users] Selecting a country

2008-01-06 Thread David Pruitt
Let's say I have a user who is looking at my map, and clicks on a specific country. What is the best way to recognize which country he clicked on? I thought using features would be good, but a user can't pan around the map if he/she is holding down the mouse button on a feature. Is there

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Selecting a country

2008-01-06 Thread Eric Lemoine
On Jan 7, 2008 3:22 AM, David Pruitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's say I have a user who is looking at my map, and clicks on a specific country. What is the best way to recognize which country he clicked on? I thought using features would be good, but a user can't pan around the map if

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Selecting a country

2008-01-06 Thread David Pruitt
That looks perfect! Thanks for that tip. David Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 07:42:48 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Selecting a country CC: users@openlayers.org You should use the webservices at http://www.geonames.org/export As example, I