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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"">Andreas,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"">This was one of the main reasons that GeoMOOSE was created, to organize many layers. You might want to take a look at it if you are having trouble with many layers in OpenLayers.
It’s built on top of OpenLayers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> openlayers-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:openlayers-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Andreas Forø Tollefsen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 18, 2014 12:51 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> openlayers-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OpenLayers-Users] Too many layers?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I am working on a thematic mapping platform showing data at local administrative levels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I have many layers, so I run into problems (see screenshot:
<a href="http://gisintersect.com/many_layers.png">http://gisintersect.com/many_layers.png</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Is there any way I can collapse groups of layers within the layer switcher?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I have a high number of layers, as you can see in the switcher. Hence, I need some way to collapse/group/categorize the layers, so that I do not need
to show all of them in the layerswitcher at once.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The result is that layers drop outside the map, so either, there is a maximum number of layers, or there should be a better way to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Andreas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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