[OpenLayers-Users] Using OpenLayers for interactive plotting

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Fri Dec 5 19:06:43 EST 2008


On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 03:58:42PM -0800, Bobby Moretti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm interested in making an interactive, web-based viewer for
> mathematical plots with Google maps-style dragging and zooming. I
> stumbled across OpenLayers, and it seems like it might be a good tool
> to use for this.
> 
> I've looked through some of the documentation, but I'm having trouble
> figuring out how to go about setting up a custom data source.

http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/UsingCustomTiles
Might help.

> Is this even feasible? Is OpenLayers the right framework for such a
> viewer, or should I be looking for something else?
> 
> Thanks for any input,
> 
> -Bobby
> 
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> Bobby Moretti
> moretti at u.washington.edu
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