OSM has already defined beautiful styles for their maps.<br><br>If you go the Tigerline shapefiles way you'd have to do all the work of downloading all the shapefiles, indexing them/storing them and retrieving them.<br>
<br>Also you'd have to deploy your own WMS server.<br><br>OSM ( assuming your usage pattern falls within their acceptable limits ) has done all the hard work for you, and is probably going to be more complete.<br><br>
This is more broad than simply an OpenLayers question if you're deciding wether to deploy your own WMS server with your own WMS source or to use OSM.<br><br>If you're going to go the shapefile way you need to learn geoserver, possibly indexed shapefiles or PostGIS for storage. As for examples, try looking at any of the geoserver examples, as they all use OpenLayers as the client.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Alessandro Ferrucci<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Arnie Shore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ashore3@verizon.net">ashore3@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Ideally, any example of US counties wd be appreciated, esp those with pan and zoom.<br>
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I'm in the discovery/learning phase of a project in which we'll transit from a GMaps base to OSM/OL, and it had been suggested that shapefiles could provide advantages over OSM tiles.<br>
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Presumably, we'd use apppriate TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Demographic data not needed - just roads and infrastructure features.<br>
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Repeat: I'm in the discovery/learning phase, and I may be asking the wrong question, so pls 'be suggestive'.<br>
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