[OpenLayers-Users] Whole Polygon as a Marker. Is it possible ?

[Eric Lemoine]

On 9/21/07, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 12:00:39PM +0000, Xavier Rayo wrote:
> > Hi all!
> > continuing with this question, is there any way to select a marker from a text layer with selectFeature hover.
>
> No. You'll need to set up mouse events on each marker, the same way you
> register click events. The SelectFeature handler is for vectors only.

Xavier,

You can also use a vector layer with the externalGraphic property to
get markers. With that stuff, you can use the SelectFeature control
for markers. See
<http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/vector-features.html> for an
example on how to use externalGraphics.

--
Eric