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    Several thousands is too much indeed.  You could :<br>
    <br>
      * use the BBOX strategy instead of Fixed to request for features
    in the current extent only<br>
      * have a WMS layer on zoomed out scales and switch to WFS on
    zoomed in scales, but you wouldn't be able to interact with your WMS
    as you do with your vector features...<br>
      * take a look at the GetFeature control and see if that could do
    the trick (currently not working, but look at the code to get the
    idea) :<br>
        
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.10/examples/getfeature-wfs.html">http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.10/examples/getfeature-wfs.html</a><br>
      * setup an OGC filter to your vector layer to get only specific
    features (if your data have some kind of attribute you could filter
    on), and make only specific features display on specific zoom
    levels.  I already did something like that, see an example here :
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bs-dev2.mapgears.com/webmap/">http://bs-dev2.mapgears.com/webmap/</a><br>
    <br>
    Best regards,<br>
    <br>
    Alexandre<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    On 11-03-01 01:35 PM, Andrew Stewart wrote:
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          size="2"><span class="370313418-01032011">Actually I modified
            the strategies to be - </span></font></div>
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          <p><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">strategies: [</font></p>
          <p><font size="2"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">new</font><font
                color="#0000ff" face="Arial">
                OpenLayers.Strategy.Fixed(),</font></font></p>
          <p><font size="2"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial">new</font><font
                color="#0000ff" face="Arial">
                OpenLayers.Strategy.Cluster()</font></font></p>
          <p><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">],</font></p>
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          <p><span class="370313418-01032011"><font color="#0000ff"
                face="Arial" size="2">Now I am getting the points
                showing up but there is still quite a delay in loading /
                zooming etc. Is there anyway I can optimize this further
                by limiting features etc? </font></span></p>
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        <font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b>
          <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:openlayers-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">openlayers-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>
          [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:openlayers-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">mailto:openlayers-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] <b>On
            Behalf Of </b>Andrew Stewart<br>
          <b>Sent:</b> March 01, 2011 11:31 AM<br>
          <b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:openlayers-users@lists.osgeo.org">openlayers-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
          <b>Subject:</b> RE: [OpenLayers-Users] WMSGetFeatureInfo + xy
          mouse coordinates, can this be done?<br>
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          size="2"><span class="925202918-01032011">So I am having
            success with point features below 100.. but is it also
            possible to use this with many point features (several
            thousand?)</span></font></div>
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          size="2"><span class="925202918-01032011">My code below is
            trying to use the cluster strategy.. previously it was Fixed
            but that causes my map to freeze when loading the several
            thousand points. But when I switch to cluster nothing
            happens and no points appear, any advice on what I'm doing
            wrong? </span></font></div>
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              color="#0000ff" size="2"><font color="#0000ff" size="2"> //Hydrant<br>
                   var test_hydrants = new
                OpenLayers.Layer.Vector("Hydrant", {<br>
                   </font></font></span></font></div>
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        <p><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><font
              color="#0000ff" size="2"><font color="#0000ff" size="2">       
                strategies: [new OpenLayers.Strategy.Cluster()],</font></font></font></p>
        <p><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><font
              color="#0000ff" size="2"><font color="#0000ff" size="2">       
                protocol: new OpenLayers.Protocol.WFS({<br>
                            url: wfs,<br>
                            featureType: "Hydrants",<br>
                            featureNS: "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://www.intergraph.com/geomedia/gml">http://www.intergraph.com/geomedia/gml</a>",<br>
                            featurePrefix: "gmgml",<br>
                            srsName: "EPSG:3776",<br>
                            //filter: filter,<br>
                            geometryName: "Geometry",<br>
                            version: "1.1.0"<br>
                        })<br>
                    });<br>
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                    </font></font><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><font
                color="#0000ff" size="2">       //Add Vector Layers to
                Map<br>
                       map.addLayer(test_hydrants);</font></font></font></p>
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        <font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b>
          <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:openlayers-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">openlayers-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>
          [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:openlayers-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">mailto:openlayers-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] <b>On
            Behalf Of </b>Alexandre Dube<br>
          <b>Sent:</b> March 01, 2011 7:52 AM<br>
          <b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:openlayers-users@lists.osgeo.org">openlayers-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
          <b>Subject:</b> Re: [OpenLayers-Users] WMSGetFeatureInfo + xy
          mouse coordinates, can this be done?<br>
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      50~ shouldn't be a problem.  IMHO, it would be a good idea to make
      the switch to WFS.<br>
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      Cheers,<br>
      <br>
      Alexandre<br>
      <br>
      On 11-03-01 09:39 AM, Andrew Stewart wrote:
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Ok thanks.. So basically if my web service does not support tolerance (which I'm pretty sure is the case) then there is not much I can do with openlayers to fix this problem.. Besides possibly changing my features into markers from my WFS and giving those markers tooltips/hotspots but not sure what the performance would be on that since I need sometimes 50+ markers.


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From: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:openlayers-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">openlayers-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> [<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:openlayers-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">mailto:openlayers-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] On Behalf Of Alexandre Dube
Sent: March 01, 2011 6:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] WMSGetFeatureInfo + xy mouse coordinates, can this be done?

Hi,

That could be setup in your web mapping service. If you use MapServer, 
you could set the Layer object definition "TOLERANCE" parameter for that.

Regards,

Alexandre

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On 11-02-28 10:02 PM, Planet)x wrote:
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          <pre wrap="">I have a slight problem which has to do with my WMS mainly but wondering if
there is a way to program around it. Well problem is I can increase the
symbol size for points on my Web service but the geometry of the point
(centroid) remains the same. Therefore when using a
OpenLayers.Control.WMSGetFeatureInfo the feature info is never returned
until I move the mouse directly in the middle of the point feature (and also
lines unfortunately). Question is can I somehow force the mouse to be moved
to the center of the point when it nears a symbol.. and is there anyway to
actually get the entire coordinates for the symbol so I can use them to do
the featureinfo somehow? Not sure if this makes sense or if there is another
approach I can utilize to do this.. appreciate any advice!

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