[OpenLayers-Users] shapefile.js A binary shapefile loader and canvas-based renderer, for javascript.

[Andreas Hocevar]

gene wrote:
> Tom Carden is currently developing a javascript library to read shapefiles :
> shapefile.js, a Javascript Shapefile and DBF Loader
> see  http://s3.amazonaws.com/shapefile-js/index.html
> http://s3.amazonaws.com/shapefile-js/index.html 
> For source 
> http://github.com/RandomEtc/shapefile-js
> http://github.com/RandomEtc/shapefile-js 
>   

Thanks for the notice.

> Could it be interesting for openlayers ?
>   

There are more efficient ways to render maps from shapefiles than doing 
it in the browser, but if someone wants to get their hands dirty to 
write an OpenLayers.Format.Shapefile or provide funding for it, then I 
guess nobody would be opposed.

Regards,
Andreas.

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