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class=500114821-20082010>if you interested to have your own dataset, then this
is a good resource:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><A
href="http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/10m-admin-1-states-provinces/">http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/10m-admin-1-states-provinces/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=500114821-20082010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>Arnd</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>Von:</B> Frank [mailto:eucloid@gmail.com]
<BR><B>Gesendet:</B> Freitag, 20. August 2010 18:02<BR><B>An:</B> Arnd
Wippermann<BR><B>Cc:</B> users@openlayers.org<BR><B>Betreff:</B> Re:
[OpenLayers-Users] Looping through the features of a WMS
layer<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Thanks! I see, WMS are just images.
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<DIV>If I ever succeed getting the Canadien provinces geometry/features, I'll
post the recipe.</DIV>
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<DIV>Francois</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Arnd Wippermann <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:arnd.wippermann@web.de">arnd.wippermann@web.de</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>if you use
WMS you have no access to any features. You get only a picture. For a certain
point you can request GetFeatureInfo. If you want features, you have to use
WFS.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>But keep
in mind. You get only that from the servers, what they want to publish (i.e
attributes of GetFeatureInfo).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>Arnd</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>Von:</B> <A
href="mailto:users-bounces@openlayers.org"
target=_blank>users-bounces@openlayers.org</A> [mailto:<A
href="mailto:users-bounces@openlayers.org"
target=_blank>users-bounces@openlayers.org</A>] <B>Im Auftrag von
</B>Frank<BR><B>Gesendet:</B> Donnerstag, 19. August 2010 02:11<BR><B>An:</B>
<A href="mailto:users@openlayers.org"
target=_blank>users@openlayers.org</A><BR><B>Betreff:</B> [OpenLayers-Users]
Looping through the features of a WMS layer<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></SPAN></FONT>Hi,<BR><BR>I
want to get the map of Canada then loop through all provinces, in order to
color them differently (I'm going to create a new Vector layer for each
province and apply its own styleMap) :<BR><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace">var wmsLayer = new
OpenLayers.Layer.WMS("Canada", "<A
href="http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/cgi-bin/mswms_gmap"
target=_blank>http://www2.dmsolutions.ca/cgi-bin/mswms_gmap</A>",</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace">{</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"> layers:
"bathymetry,land_fn,park,drain_fn,drainage," +</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace">
"prov_bound,fedlimit,rail,road,popplace",</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"> transparent: "true",
format: "image/png"</SPAN><BR style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: courier new,monospace">});</SPAN><BR><BR>So the question
is how to loop through the WMS layer features or "prov_bound" to retrieve each
province's geometry.
<BR><BR>Thanks!<BR>Francois<BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>