Thanks! I see, WMS are just images. If I ever succeed getting the Canadien provinces geometry/features, I'll post the recipe.
Francois On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Arnd Wippermann <arnd.wipperm...@web.de>wrote: > Hi, > > if you use WMS you have no access to any features. You get only a picture. > For a certain point you can request GetFeatureInfo. If you want features, > you have to use WFS. > > But keep in mind. You get only that from the servers, what they want to > publish (i.e attributes of GetFeatureInfo). > > Arnd > > > ------------------------------ > *Von:* users-boun...@openlayers.org [mailto:users-boun...@openlayers.org] > *Im Auftrag von *Frank > *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 19. August 2010 02:11 > *An:* users@openlayers.org > *Betreff:* [OpenLayers-Users] Looping through the features of a WMS layer > > Hi, > > I want to get the map of Canada then loop through all provinces, in order > to color them differently (I'm going to create a new Vector layer for each > province and apply its own styleMap) : > > var wmsLayer = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS("Canada", " > http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/cgi-bin/mswms_gmap", > { > layers: "bathymetry,land_fn,park,drain_fn,drainage," + > "prov_bound,fedlimit,rail,road,popplace", > transparent: "true", format: "image/png" > }); > > So the question is how to loop through the WMS layer features or > "prov_bound" to retrieve each province's geometry. > > Thanks! > Francois > > > >
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