On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:14:52PM -0700, geoman wrote: > > I'm new to OpenLayers; I'm evaluating it for a current project. I'm going to > be getting WKT for road segments from a database, and I want to highlight > those segments on a map. However, I haven't been able to get past this > error: > Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "String contains an invalid > character" code: "5" nsresult: "0x80530005 > (NS_ERROR_DOM_INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR)" location: > "http://openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js Line: 554"]
The WKT format returns Features, not geometries. > var wkt = "LINESTRING(-73.9444 40.75921,-73.96892 40.76396)"; > var geometry = parser.read(wkt); > var feature = new OpenLayers.Feature.Vector(geometry); Should just be: > var wkt = "LINESTRING(-73.9444 40.75921,-73.96892 40.76396)"; > var feature = parser.read(wkt); Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users