[OpenLayers-Users] CVS format for OpenLayers.Layer.Text?

[Erik Uzureau]

Salut Alexandre,

Thanks for bringing this to the forefront. There is still a ton of work to do
on OL to get it up to a reasonable state in terms of documentation. The first
step is getting the new JSDOC working[1][2].

If we can find a volunteer to take these on, that would be awesome, but
if not we'll just have to wait it out a bit until some schedules clear up. :-)

Erik

[1] http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/418
[2] http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/419


On 1/31/07, Alexandre Leroux <alexandre.leroux at ec.gc.ca> wrote:
>
> Thanks Bill,
>
> It now works wonderfully :-) The documentation really needs updates!
> It's also indicated in the doc that OpenOffice can generate the "CVS"
> file for OpenLayers.Layer.Text while it can't generate the required
> tab-delimited file.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex :-)
>
>
> Bill Woodall wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 20:06 +0000, Alexandre Leroux wrote:
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> >> Wow. OpenLayers is so easy to use. I'm enthusiastic :-)
> >>
> >> Using 2.3-rc2, I have some problems with:
> >> http://openlayers.org/doc/reference.html#OpenLayers.Layer.Text
> >>
> >> It is said the textfile must be in CSV, but when looking at the example
> >> textfile.txt, here copied:
> >> point title description icon
> >> 10,20 my orange title   my orange description
> >> 2,4   my aqua title  my aqua description
> >> 42,-71   my purple title   my purple description<br/>is great.
> >> http://www.openlayers.org/api/img/zoom-world-mini.png
> >>
> >> This is obviously not comma separated.
> >>
> >> I failed to generate any text file that would be successfully read by
> >> OpenLayers.Layer.Text. Anyone can reduce the confusion?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Alex
> >
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > The docs should refer to the textfile as a Delimiter-separated values
> > (DSV) instead of Comma-separated values (CSV) and in this case the DSV
> > are tabs.
> >
> > The required columns for the textfile are;
> >  point     x,y pair in the appropriate units
> >    or
> >  lon       the "x" coordinate
> >  lat       the "y" coordinate
> >
> > optional columns are;
> >  title        popupContentHTML Title
> >  image,icon   url to the "stick pin" image/icon
> >  iconSize     yes, the size you want the image/icon to be
> >  iconOffset   you guess it, the offset
> >       (for a stickpin use something  width/2,-height to position
> >       the image/icon over the point )
> >  description  popupContentHTML desc
> >
> > Hope that helps
> >
> > .........Bill,
> > OL/TC user
> >
> >
>
> --
> Alexandre Leroux, M.Sc., Ing.
> Environnement Canada / Environment Canada
> Centre météorologique canadien / Canadian Meteorological Centre
> Division de la réponse aux urgences environnementales /
> Environmental Emergency Response Division
> alexandre.leroux at ec.gc.ca
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