[OpenLayers-Users] draw a line on a map?

geoman csabbey at gmail.com
Tue Apr 15 15:23:49 EDT 2008


There were other issues with my code - I tried to start with an out of date
example of pgRouting from
http://pgrouting.postlbs.org/wiki/Workshop-DrawRoute

Here is a page which details some other changes that are necessary to get
this code to work against version 2.5
http://tainavn.blogspot.com/



Christopher Schmidt-4 wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:14:52PM -0700, geoman wrote:
>> 
>> I'm new to OpenLayers; I'm evaluating it for a current project. I'm going
>> to
>> be getting WKT for road segments from a database, and I want to highlight
>> those segments on a map. However, I haven't been able to get past this
>> error:
>> Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "String contains an invalid
>> character"  code: "5" nsresult: "0x80530005
>> (NS_ERROR_DOM_INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR)"  location:
>> "http://openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js Line: 554"]
> 
> The WKT format returns Features, not geometries.
> 
>>             var wkt = "LINESTRING(-73.9444 40.75921,-73.96892 40.76396)";
>>             var geometry = parser.read(wkt);
>>             var feature = new OpenLayers.Feature.Vector(geometry);
> 
> Should just be:
> 
>>             var wkt = "LINESTRING(-73.9444 40.75921,-73.96892 40.76396)";
>>             var feature = parser.read(wkt);
> 
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Christopher Schmidt
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