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: >> 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 >> coordinate). I have not seen anything that would indicate that this is >> possible but I wanted to throw it out there to see if I may have missed a >> possible solution. > > There is a patch providing this functionality which needs some more > work: http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1895 > > I am currently working on it to make the feature available in the 2.8 > release of OpenLayers, which is scheduled for April. > > Regards, > Andreas. > > -- > Andreas Hocevar > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ > Expert service straight from the developers. > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Adding-Text-to-map....-possible--tp2506277p2510801.html Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users