[OpenLayers-Users] Design suggestions for Interactive map!

[Alexander Petkov]

Since the combobox select will change the bounding box for the map,
it's probably enough to monitor the current map extent changes as the
event-based criteria for generating your stats. You can use Ajax call
that sends the current map extent, do totals and to get json records
(definitely not static), and then update your table.

Your requirements sound reasonable and very much doable.

Alex

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Robert Buckley
<robertdbuckley at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I need some ideas on how to start a project using openlayers. The project
> entails a simple map which shows points. Each point has certain attributes
> (strings/integers)which correspond to locations in a town. My department
> would like a map which shows the individual attributes and the sum totals of
> the integer field listed in the attribute table beside the map when they are
> present in the map(ie BBOX strategy) or through a selection process(combo
> control?).
> eg. select town A from the comboBox -> the map zooms to the town bounds ->
> the statistics from the points present in that town are displayed in tabular
> form beside the map.
> Is this kind of thing do-able in an interactive way using postgis and
> geoserver, or should I be looked at static json lists?
> How /where should I start looking?
> If anyone has done similar work or has seen such maps i´d be grateful to see
> them,
> Yours,
> Rob
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