[MapQuery] marker layer

[Steven Ottens]

Hi Richards,

Thanks, I was already wondering if Markers was still in fashion ;)
This does require a new approach, more thinking to do ...

steven

On Aug 23, 2011, at 6:24 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:

> Hi Steven,
> 
> see:
> http://docs.openlayers.org/library/overlays.html
> 
> Markers are only there for backwards compatibility, I think Vectors as
> point-markers is the way to go?
> (doesn't solve your problem though....)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard
> 
> On 08/23/2011 02:49 PM, Steven M. Ottens wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've got a design issue:
>> I want to add a marker layer to MapQuery
>> (http://dev.openlayers.org/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Layer/Markers-js.html)
>> so I can add markers to my applications. However the actual markers are
>> a different object
>> (http://dev.openlayers.org/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Marker-js.html).
>> 
>> As such just creating a layer type:marker wouldn't achieve much. We
>> could pass in coordinates to add markers at those locations;
>> layer = {type: marker, location: [[3,2],[5,4]]}
>> But how should you add markers later on or remove them?
>> 
>> Alternative would be to create a marker object (just like in OL) and
>> create a markers() function on the layer object
>> marker = {location: [3,2], icon: 'icon.png'}
>> marker2 = {location: [5,4], icon: 'icon.png'}
>> layer = {type: marker, markers: [marker,marker2]}
>> But that would create an extra function on the layer object, which can
>> only be used for a marker layer
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> Steven
>> 
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