[OpenLayers-Users] Shape?s?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:56:20PM -0300, conde wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I am a new on this. 
> 
> I want to use OpenLayer on a project and I want to use my own shape data
> files (.shp) how I can do this? Only with OpenLayer.

You can't. OpenLayers is a client side display application. You will
need server side software to serve the data as vectors or render it into
images -- most likely, you're looking for a WMS Server like MapServer or
GeoServer.


Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta