[OpenLayers-Users] icons in Layer.Text

[Tara Athan]

I did finally run across the documentation on the textfile format here:
http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/MapViewerService
Thanks for your help- I have it working now.
Also thanks for the tip about working in Excel (or OpenOffice ;-) )- it 
is actually possible to create the text file in notepad but you have to 
put the tabs in the right place and then they look the same as spaces, 
so it is very inconvenient.
Working in a spreadsheet allows me to fill down for all the duplicate 
icons, sizes, etc. instead of typing them out.

Now if I can just figure out how to get the textfile from a database 
query... anyone have an example of that?
Tara

Robert J Becraft wrote:
> See my example at http://www.metaphaze.com/Avalon/AMII_world_map.htm
>
> You will need to use Excell to create the txt file.  Type each column 
> in the spreadsheet, then export as a .txt file.  It puts tabs between 
> the columns, and makes it readable to OpenLayers.  Using notepad won't 
> work.  The column headers are keywords that specify what type of data 
> is in that column.  I don't have the link to the help page I found 
> this on, it is on the OpenLayer's site though.
>
> I positioned the icon's over the first letter of the layer with the 
> country names on it.  You can see this when zooming in.  I did this by 
> hand with the spreadsheet open and adjusted the LAT/LON values, 
> exporting and reloading the web-page until they were close.
> The icon's themselves are 25x25 pels, I don't adjust the size.  It 
> seemed simpler to have them the actual size I wanted them to appear on 
> the map.  They are transparent gifs.
>
> Eventually the text detail will come in from a dynamic piece of code I 
> haven't finished writing.  One idea I'm toying with is to build a menu 
> in the popup that zooms to a variety of features for each of the 
> countries.  The final product will depend on my time and how well it 
> works when I get to it.
>
> Erik Uzureau wrote:
>> Here is example/textfile.txt
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> You need to add new columns for iconSize and iconOffset, so something 
>> like this:
>>
>> point    title    description    icon    iconSize    iconOffset
>> 10,20    my orange title    my orange
>> description    http://example.com/icon.jpg    50,50    20,20
>>
>>
>> On 10/8/07, Tara Athan <tara_athan at alt2is.com> wrote:
>>  
>>>  Erik- sounds good but how do I do that- is there an example 
>>> somewhere to
>>> follow?
>>>
>>>  Tara
>>>
>>>
>>>  Erik Uzureau wrote:
>>>  Hi Tara,
>>>
>>> What you want to do is to specyify iconOffset and iconSize columns in
>>> your text file.
>>>
>>> Erik
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/8/07, Tara Athan <tara_athan at alt2is.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>  I am trying to add nondefault icons for markers using Layer.Text
>>> (because I plan to have a large, dynamic set of markers)
>>> I want the marker to be smaller than the default marker.
>>> Passing a rescaled version of a larger marker caused it to be enlarged
>>> and stretched and look really bad.
>>> I sort of got it working by placing a marker into a larger canvas, but
>>> the tip of the marker doesn't seem to be in quite the right place.
>>> Is there some documentation on this, or another way to handle it?
>>> Also, is there a way to specifiy the image file for all the markers 
>>> in a
>>> text file without repeating the path in every line?
>>>
>>> Sample script at
>>> alt2is.com/pages_html/openlayers/marker.html
>>>
>>> Thanks, Tara
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