[OpenLayers-Users] two newbie questions

[Alan Borden]

Hi,

1. I previously played with gsiv
<http://www.mojavelinux.com/projects/gsiv/>and their python
tiling script <http://panojs.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/scripts/tilemaker.py>,
but it was missing many of the features that openlayers has. Can I take the
tiles generated by this script and use them in openlayers? Or, is there
another simple tiling solution I should consider for use with openlayers? I
don't have map data just very large images - like the mars rover image on
the gsiv demo. Also, will I be able to define my own common coordinate
system for these images using some arbitrary scale instead of lon/lat? I
wasn't sure if openlayers was only intended for map data...e.g. I noticed
the api calls were named lon or lat for coordinates

2. I noticed mentions of a vector graphics layer for openlayers. A project
called dojo recently added vector graphic support in the 0.4 release, plus a
local data store cache, and documentation tools (both of which I also saw
mentioned in your Trac logs). So I was wondering if the openlayers team had
seen or considered the dojo library?

3. Have you considered providing the 'dynamic scale bar' as dynamic x/y axes
on the viewer box? So rather than a little scale bar, a scaled labelled axis
would be drawn on the vertical/horizontal components of the viewer box each
time the pan/zoom status is updated? It seems more intuitive and informative
to me.

Thanks,
alan
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