Brad, thanks for your thoughts. Brad Spencer wrote: > > I think its horses for courses really. A lot of people get hung up about > mouseover interactivity and force programmers to do all sorts of > gymnastics > to try to make a loosely coupled web app look like as responsive as a > desktop GIS. > We used to have an IE-only SVG map. It was slow loading but a lot of useful data was in the browser so we could do instant tooltips on mouseover. We have since moved to a cross-browser tiles-based system (thanks to OpenLayers) and so we're trying to implement as much of the old functionality.
Brad Spencer wrote: > > Also, the area that a user decides to apply this approach to maynot be > controllable by you and could lead to excessive and unnecessary geometry > download times. > The idea is to use a WMS layer exclusively when zoomed out, switching on the supplementary vector layer at small scales. I'm conscious of how heavy the WFS request can be. Brad Spencer wrote: > > Now to answer your question regarding clicking on the vector layer. I > found > that you have to make the vector layer the top layer to avoid these > conflicts. So I manipulate the z-index of the vector layer to make sure > its > at the top. > Cool, I'll try it. I've since seen an example where two SelectFeature objects are applied to one layer, so I'll look at that too. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Vector-layer-with-map-events-register-click-tp5149829p5152623.html Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users