<div>Hi,</div><div><br></div>I've begun my plunge into openlayers and have a number of things working, but I've run into a question that I haven't been able to answer for myself from the docs and the mailing list archives.<div>
<br></div><div>I am building a map that will live track an object (for example: my aircraft location as I fly in the FlightGear flight simulator.)</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to leave a trail behind myself showing my recent path (say for the past 10 seconds or the past 10 minutes.) I am imagining a LineString where I can insert new points at one end and remove points from the other end -- as my position updates.</div>
<div><br>I could create an entirely new LineString and Vector and add that to my layer 10x a second (removing the old feature), but I was hoping I could just build the linestring once, add it too a layer once, and from then on just modify the linestring structure.</div>
<div><br>Is something like this possible or am I barking up the wrong tree?</div><div><br></div><div>I have another sort of similar situation where I may want to additionally modify the point locations of some of the points in the linestring (based on external data coming from the flight simulator.) In otherwords I want to reshape the linestring by adjusting the locations of individual points. Is anything like this possible?</div>
<div><br>I've been hunting through the examples and the documentation and haven't stumbled on the appropriate magic yet.</div><div><br></div><div>Any tips or pointers or nudges for an openlayers newbie?</div><div>
<br>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Curt.<br>-- <br><div><div>Curtis Olson:</div><div><a href="http://www.atiak.com" target="_blank">http://www.atiak.com</a> - <a href="http://aem.umn.edu/~uav/" target="_blank">http://aem.umn.edu/~uav/</a></div>
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