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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">All,</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">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</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">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?</font> </p>
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>>> Daniel Morissette <dmorissette@mapgears.com> wrote:<br> </p>
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Bob Basques wrote:<br>><br>> So what would be the expected additional capabilities of using<br>> mode=openlayers over using mode=map?  (Especially with regard to only<br>> viewing a single layer, TBW, I see this MODE= option as primarily a way<br>> to compare more than one layer to others)  The many layers is what I'm<br>> interested in seeing as a test tool.  mode=map already builds a<br>> composite map.<br>><br><br><br>At the moment, mode=map returns you a static image, you cannot zoom or<br>navigate it easily... this is the problem we want to solve.<br><br>The goal of mode=openlayers would simply be to provide an easy way to<br>preview a mapfile with a set of selected layers, zoom in and out and<br>navigate... more or less something like the following openlayers<br>example, but without any overlays, so even simpler:<br><br><a href="http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/example.html">http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/example.html</a><br><br>And if you "View Source" you'll see it's only a couple of lines to<br>generate... very lightweight, since most of the code comes from<br>openlayers.org.<br><br>--<br>Daniel Morissette<br><a href="http://www.mapgears.com/">http://www.mapgears.com/</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>mapserver-dev mailing list<br>mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org<br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver</a>-dev<br>
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