[mapserver-dev] Proposal to add built-in OpenLayers map viewer

[Bob Basques]

All, 

Well, that explains some of it, but now it's seeming like OpenLayers is a bit heavy for something like that, all mapserver would need to do something like pan/zoom would be something smaller than OL 

Looking at the example, while is only loads a couple of lines in page, looking at it from the download in firebug, it's doing a few more things.  Is the real problem in keeping some list straight in the distro, and only one is desired? 

bobb 



>>> Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:

Bob Basques wrote:
>
> So what would be the expected additional capabilities of using
> mode=openlayers over using mode=map?  (Especially with regard to only
> viewing a single layer, TBW, I see this MODE= option as primarily a way
> to compare more than one layer to others)  The many layers is what I'm
> interested in seeing as a test tool.  mode=map already builds a
> composite map.
>


At the moment, mode=map returns you a static image, you cannot zoom or
navigate it easily... this is the problem we want to solve.

The goal of mode=openlayers would simply be to provide an easy way to
preview a mapfile with a set of selected layers, zoom in and out and
navigate... more or less something like the following openlayers
example, but without any overlays, so even simpler:

http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/example.html

And if you "View Source" you'll see it's only a couple of lines to
generate... very lightweight, since most of the code comes from
openlayers.org.

--
Daniel Morissette
http://www.mapgears.com/
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