[OpenLayers-Dev] Dev Digest, Vol 40, Issue 17

[Brian Kittrell]

Thank you for the answers to those questions.  I will be looking into
them as I continue to develop my game.  I also have been looking into
a CSS implementation that may be more in line with what I am trying to
do.  Since basically all of the map information is stored in a
database on the server, it may be just as efficient or faster to
generate map data to a cache and then load that page on demand.

Just trying to get the biggest bang for my processor cycles. :)
OpenLayers is definitely a nice package, but it may be much bigger
than what I need to perform the tasks I'm trying to do.  Of course,
this is a problem you can run into when using an existing framework in
any application.

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> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:45:01 -0600
> From: Brian Kittrell <kittrellbj at gmail.com>
> Subject: [OpenLayers-Dev] Hiya
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> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to drop in a message and see if anyone could help me
> out.  I am developing a browser-based MMO game, and I need mapping
> functionality for it.  Basically, I was wondering if anyone could
> point me to some tutorials regarding the following topics that break
> things down to a non-javascript developer.
>
> 1.)  The ability to use the map library with an image instead of using
> a map server.
> 2.)  The ability to add click-able hotspots to the map at specific
> coordinates (with URL-encoded GET variables, etc.)
> 3.)  If there is an ability to draw shapes on the map of different
> colors (to represent borders of places).  Not an extremely important
> feature, but I'd like to have any suggestions or recommendations with
> regards to this.  (Maybe several overlay layers for each different
> territory aligned to the image somehow?)
>
> I'm a PHP developer and have little experience in javascript.  I can
> follow tutorials, but I can't really write javascript from scratch
> like I can with PHP.  Any/all help is appreciated in advance.  Thanks.
>
> - Brian
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:59:32 +0100
> From: Marc Jansen <jansen at terrestris.de>
> Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Dev] Hiya
> To: kittrellbj at gmail.com
> Cc: Openlayers <dev at openlayers.org>
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> Hi Brian,
>
> some answers inline.
>
> Brian Kittrell wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just wanted to drop in a message and see if anyone could help me
>> out.  I am developing a browser-based MMO game, and I need mapping
>> functionality for it.  Basically, I was wondering if anyone could
>> point me to some tutorials regarding the following topics that break
>> things down to a non-javascript developer.
>>
>> 1.)  The ability to use the map library with an image instead of using
>> a map server.
>>
>
> Not a tutorial, but an example:
> http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/image-layer.html
>
> you should be able to add more Image layers that are being displayed at
> various zoomlevels.
>
>> 2.)  The ability to add click-able hotspots to the map at specific
>> coordinates (with URL-encoded GET variables, etc.)
>>
>
> Maybe
> http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/select-feature-multilayer.html is
> what you are searching for?
> Notice how the  Features of the layers are selectable and have an action
> that runs when a feuture is selected.
> The vector-features can be styled to (more or less) whatever you want.
>
>> 3.)  If there is an ability to draw shapes on the map of different
>> colors (to represent borders of places).  Not an extremely important
>> feature, but I'd like to have any suggestions or recommendations with
>> regards to this.  (Maybe several overlay layers for each different
>> territory aligned to the image somehow?)
>>
>
> I'd suggest a Vector-layer with polygon features as well. If there are
> many regions you need to draw, I would definitely go with a mapserver.
>
> See http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/vector-features.html for the
> creation and styling of vector features.
>
>> I'm a PHP developer and have little experience in javascript.  I can
>> follow tutorials, but I can't really write javascript from scratch
>> like I can with PHP.  Any/all help is appreciated in advance.  Thanks.
>>
>
> regards,
> Marc
>
>> - Brian
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