[OpenLayers-Dev] Doubts about GeoRSS

[Gorka López Rivacoba]

Thanks for your clarifications.

I'll work in these options.

Thanks. Regards,

Gorka López
Geograma S.L.

2008/9/4 Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com>

> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:18:13AM +0200, Gorka López Rivacoba wrote:
> >  Hello,
> >
> > In my project I have to load a lot of information to a map. I prove with
> > some solutions and we decide to use GeoRSS, but I have some questions
> about
> > this type of layer
> >
> >    1. When I load information with this method, when I click in one of
> these
> >    points, the popup resizes. When you click twice the popup is bigger
> and so
> >    on.
>
> This is fixed in what will soon be OpenLayers 2.7.
>
> >
> >    1. When two points are too close, the icons are overlap. I try to do
> >    something like this (http://www.afcomponents.com/components/umap_as3/
> ),
> >    that when two points are too close, it only appears an icon and when
> you
> >    click on it, a popup with two tabs is shown. To do this, I cannot use
> >    GeoRSS. I think about this problem and II think a possible solution
> is: I
> >    have to read the georss.xml document and look for close points, and
> then
> >    generate a marker with two or more tabs.
>
> Sure; keep in mind that OpenLayers doesn't support 'tabs' natively in
> popups, so you'll be rolling your own in that regard.
>
> >
> >
> >    1. If I have a lot of entries, the performance of the application
> >    is very slow. I think in a solution, the client sends to server the
> >    location and the zoom, and the server reads the entire document but
> >    only returns a document with the entries referred to the client's
> >    location and zoom.
>
> Yep, that's typically the solution to that problem.
>
> > Is there something done like this? Have you any other solution to these
> > general problems?
> Nope. You covered them all.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
>
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