[OpenLayers-Users] Displaying moving symbols on a map?

[bwoodall]

Hi Charlie, Robert, & List

I'm just starting into all of this and saw an AJAX Class
Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater that Charlie might look at though
I'm not sure how to get it to work within OL.


..........Bill,

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 23:50 +0100, Robert Buzink wrote:
> hi charlie,
> 
> I don't know about WFS server. Somebody else will have to answer that,
> but updating map can also be done by using php script that dynamically
> generates xml-file.
> 
> The javascript in the map could read the xml file and generate markers
> from it. You could set the php script in such a way that it outputs
> different imagename/location in the xml file for a while when a marker
> is just updated. Openlayers lets you create custom marker-images. I
> don't think they can be moving images. 
> 
> Again, it's just a suggestion. WFS server might be better.
> 
> Robert.
> 
> On 12/14/06, Okeefe, Charlie (Mission Systems)
> <Charlie.Okeefe at ngc.com> wrote:
>         Hello all, I'm interested in using OpenLayers for a project,
>         and the basic requirement is fairly straightforward - an
>         interactive world map running in a web browser showing moving
>         symbols whose locations are given and updated by an outside
>         service.
>         
>         I'm fairly new to a lot of the terminology involved here -
>         from what I have read thus far, it looks like I might want to
>         do this with a WFS server - each symbol we want to show
>         becomes a "feature" that can move when the service "updates"
>         it.
>         
>         Am I on the right track here? Is OpenLayers a good tool for
>         this? If it is, I'm interested in learning how to set up such
>         an application. Otherwise any suggestions on a better tool for
>         the job would be greatly appreciated.
>         
>         Thanks!
>         
>         Charlie
>         
>         
>         
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