<div dir="ltr">Thanks to everyone who responded. these were very helpful.<div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>Jeremy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Christopher Schmidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crschmidt@metacarta.com">crschmidt@metacarta.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:37:08PM -0400, Jeremy Jackson wrote:<br>
> I see the arcgis example in the FAQ section that uses a png layer from<br>
> ArcGIS server. But does anyone know if openlayers supports a shapefile<br>
> format?<br>
<br>
</div>In general, OpenLayers works with images; you can also work with vectors<br>
in some formats, but the way to display a 'map' is to display it by<br>
first rendering it to images.<br>
<br>
ESRI has a "WMS Connector" for their ArcGIS Server products, as I<br>
understand it, that will allow the server to act as a WMS that<br>
OpenLayers can talk to.<br>
<br>
Additionally, ESRI has some tools to create pre-cached version of tiles:<br>
these can (as far as I know) be generated from either vector or raster<br>
data: the key thing is that for OL to consume it, it has to be in either<br>
an image format (WMS) or to be one of our supported vector formats (GML,<br>
KML, GeoJSON, GeoRSS, etc.)<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
Christopher Schmidt<br>
MetaCarta<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jeremy Jackson<br>(617) 543-7583 - Boston<br>(514) 463-8393 - Montreal (for September only)<br><a href="http://jeremyjac.googlepages.com">http://jeremyjac.googlepages.com</a><br>
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