@ Linda I have been told that it would be preferable not to directly access the information, they would prefer that the information is dumped nightly to something else (text file or another database) and then accessed that way. I thought that a text file would be the easier option, given the smaller size and ease of maintenance.
<br><br>@Brad, this sounds like the kinda of thing that I want to do. Doing it this way will I be able to build some sort of interface that allows users to search and display the markers that they want?<br><br>Cheers<br><br>
Brad<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 27/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Linda Rawson</b> <<a href="mailto:linda.rawson@gmail.com">linda.rawson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Why don't you just create a database view of the information and make it available via a web service and your users would always have up to date information.</div><span class="sg">
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<div>Linda<br><br></div></span><div><span class="e" id="q_1167e1bc1e5d200e_2">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 26, 2007 3:12 PM, Julien-Samuel Lacroix <<a href="mailto:jlacroix@mapgears.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jlacroix@mapgears.com</a>> wrote:
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br><br>You have a great resource of examples here:<br><a href="http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/</a><br><br>Check the markersTextLayer.html example to have an example of a layer<br>that comes from a csv file.<br>(<a href="http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/markersTextLayer.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/markersTextLayer.html</a>)<br><br>There's also use gml (see the gml-layer.html) if you prefer xml files.<br><br>Julien<br>
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<div><br><br>Bradley McLain wrote:<br>> Ok what I am trying to do is to have a progress database dump all<br>> relevant information about various locations in some form of text file<br>> nightly.<br>
><br>> I then want to use OpenLayers to read from/query this file and display<br>> the relevant information.<br>><br>> I was wondering if this is possible to do, can OpenLayers read/query a<br>> text file such as a csv or xml?
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