[OpenLayers-Users] marker implementation using images ?

[David Fawcett]

I haven't looked under the hood, but I think that MapBox may do a similar thing.  Http://Mapbox.com



On Jul 7, 2011, at 5:18 PM, Alessandro Ferrucci <alessandroferrucci at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think these implementations are comparable to what Google is doing.
> 
> These implementations require you to click a button and for a request to go back to the server and come back.
> 
> Google doesn't ever go back to the server, they (efficiently) send everything over on map/layer load and then are able to know when you hover over a feature/box.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Arnd Wippermann <arnd.wippermann at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> look at these two examples, that uses a comparable approach
> (showing a WMS layer and request data at the mouseposition)
> http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.10/examples/getfeatureinfo-c
> ontrol.html
> http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.10/examples/getfeature-wfs.h
> tml
> 
> Unfortunately it seems , that the server http://demo.opengeo.org is down.
> 
> Arnd
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Signed,
> Alessandro Ferrucci
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