<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Even though i am unknown and just a lowly user, </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I would completly agree to having a grouped layer. Where you can create layers inside it and turn them all on or off.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I actually think this would be fairly easy.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hmm, maybe i will try making a .js for this one... good idea.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">On the same note of advanced search queries, i think an identify type button would be quite excellent, i hardcoded one into my MouseToolbar.js (OL 2.2 release) with a tied event.<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter@gmail.com><BR>To: CHAPUIS Bertil <Bertil.Chapuis@heig-vd.ch><BR>Cc: "Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]" <Tom.Kralidis@ec.gc.ca>; dev@openlayers.org<BR>Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2006 4:16:34 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Dev] Advanced GIS functionnalities<BR><BR>
<DIV>We have discussed sub-layers on the WMC/OWS-Context and Mapbuilder lists.<BR><BR>I think the current idea is to set up a "group" flag for a layer so that <BR>multiple layers can be grouped in a legend in a hierarchical manner.<BR><BR>Could you please expand on your idea of the "Customizable Layer".<BR><BR>CHAPUIS Bertil wrote:<BR>> Hello,<BR>> <BR>> We (at Camptocamp SA) are very impressed about the interactivity of OpenLayers.<BR>> <BR>> We are seriously thinking of using the OL API with advanced GIS server functionalities. Our experience with CartoWeb development could bring a lot to the OL community.<BR>> <BR>> Advanced GIS functionnalities may include:<BR>> <BR>> - Customizable layer (one image with several sub layers)<BR>> - Advanced search queries with complex highlighting on the result images<BR>> - Routing<BR>> - And more...<BR>> <BR>> Are there already investigations to standardize the communication between the client
and the server (XML, JSON, WFS, WPS, ...) ? Javascript often needs proxy severs to use Web services. So we think now would be a good time to discuss how to efficiently use the server.<BR>> <BR>> Regards,<BR>> <BR>> The Camptocamp team<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Dev mailing list<BR>> Dev@openlayers.org<BR>> <A href="http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev" target=_blank>http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev</A><BR>> <BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Cameron Shorter<BR><A href="http://cameron.shorter.net/" target=_blank>http://cameron.shorter.net</A><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Dev mailing list<BR>Dev@openlayers.org<BR><A href="http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev" target=_blank>http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev</A></DIV></DIV>
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