[mapserver-dev] Proposal to add built-in OpenLayers map viewer
Norman Vine
nhv at cape.com
Fri Sep 24 16:04:33 EDT 2010
On Sep 24, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Bob Basques wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> You got a very good point, but unfortunately pure/simple HTML is so
> 1999'ish, that would not give the slippy map effect and the map refresh
> without page reload. :(
Not necessarily lightweight but OssimPlanet already does this
The trick is parsing the GetCapabilities response to automagically build a
layer selection dialog
One does have to manually enter the Server address and make a few clicks
with the mouse :-)
Norman
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