[OpenLayers-Dev] Creating custom 3rd party Layers

[Andrea Battisti]

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>> Probably, as you said, it is too complex to getting OL to work in a way 
>> it was not meant to; maybe I should come up with some sort of 
>> server-side wrapper that can be queried with an url and gives back an 
>> image, similar to what a WMS server does.
>>     
>
> This is one alternative. The other is to write a more complex Tile
> subclass -- it's more difficult, for sure, but it's not impossible, and  
> it's not outside the design: just no existing *image* Layers do it.
> (WFS, on the other hand, does, but since it's not an Image tile, it's
> not trivial to see how this would work to a non-developer.)
>
> If you can figure out a way to write a WMS-like proxy, I'd recommend
> that -- and once you do that, you'll be able to use TileCache with it
> too ;)
>   

I ended up with a server side solution, instead of customizing too much 
the OL code.

Thank you very much for the explanations, and thanks to the whole team...
OpenLayers is great!

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Andrea Battisti
Applied Coherent Technology Corp.