Hi: We have an application framework that we've decided to port from Google Maps 2 to OpenLayers, and so far it's been pretty painless. From the map perspective, our application provides for real-time marker updates via GPS devices, user-created markers w/custom icons, user-created vector features (lines, areas, polys), custom maptile sets, etc.
Coming from the GMap2 world, I initially ported our code to work with the OpenLayers.Marker class, where it had been previously using GMarkers. I knew that I would be using Features to support the vector functionality, but when I started looking at how to make certain user-created Markers draggable (as we had before with GMap2), I started getting lost. I guess my question is, coming from a Google Maps 2 world, it seems like a GMarker is more like an OpenLayers.Marker except for being able to drag it around, in which case it looks like I should use OpenLayers.Features instead for everything. But then I'm getting confused by the fact that a Feature attaches to a particular Layer, when we intended to have multiple base layer options for the user to pick from. And finally, I don't understand why a Feature has it's own lonlat that could be different from the one the Marker has....? Can anybody help clear this up for me? Thanks for your time. Matt J Cwanek FourD Development, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
