[OpenLayers-Users] Zoom to feature and highlight it

[Eric Lemoine]

On Wednesday, August 19, 2009, kennyken <asseltine1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here is what I’m trying to do.
> I have google maps as my base layer.  Then I have a polygon layer on top of
> that.
> What I’m trying to do is link to a particular polygon and highlight it via a
> hyperlink somewhere on my website.
>
> For example I would have a link similar to
> http://mywebsite/map.html/polygonIDNumber/
>
> That would then open the map and zoom to and highlight the polygon that is
> identified in the URL.
> I’ve look at several example and I can’t find what I’m looking for. Any help
> would be appreciated.

Hi. You might find the OpenLayers.Util.createUrlObject() function
useful. Using this function you should be able to get the feature id
from the page URL.

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