[OpenLayers-Users] two newbie questions

[Alan Borden]

I wasn't sure if my other two questions got lost in the vector gfx
discussion, but if anyone has any pointers it would be very helpful -
particularly for the first question

thanks, alan

On 10/26/06, Chris Holmes <cholmes at openplans.org> wrote:
>
>
> > 2. I noticed mentions of a vector graphics layer for openlayers. A
> > project called dojo recently added vector graphic support in the 0.4
> > release, plus a local data store cache, and documentation tools (both of
> > which I also saw mentioned in your Trac logs). So I was wondering if the
> > openlayers team had seen or considered the dojo library?
>
> Wow, I was just going to ask this as well.  Have recently been in touch
> with some of the dojo people, specifically the http://openrecord.org
> people.  We were chatting about integrating GIS functionality in to it -
> they have a number of ways to display data through charts, and on a map
> would make a lot of sense.  OpenLayers is an obvious choice for that as
> both are pure javascript.
>
> Their vector support looks quite nice:
>
> > The new Dojo 0.4 release includes a dojo.gfx 2D vector
> > graphics library, which renders natively to browsers as SVG or VML
> > (which means it supports both Firefox and IE, as well as others).
> > Having the new dojo.gfx library should make it fairly easy to write a
> > tool that would let a user draw lines and shapes on top of a map, and
> > then pan and  zoom those drawings whenever the user pans and zooms the
> > map itself.
> >
> > Here's a simple dojo.gfx demo where you can click on the some circles
> > and drag them around:
> >   http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/demos/gfx/circles.html
> > And here's one with a clock where you can click on the hands and drag
> > them around:
> >   http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/demos/gfx/clock.html
> > Which means it should be possible, given some effort, to make more
> > sophisticated drawing tools, like this one:
> >   http://www.mxgraph.com/demo/mxgraph-web/web/mxWorkflow-Demo.html
>
>
> best regards,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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