[OpenLayers-Users] Shape?s?

[Gerd Dowideit]

Hi All,
I am new to OL. I am testing OL 2.4. I also have Apache with MS4W map
server support up and running on two of my machines (Using WAMP and
Cartoweb). I feel Cartoweb is a bit of an overkill  for what I want to
do: deliver ESRI shapefiles via web pages to my students for viewing and
also for minor edit-overlays.
I had a good look at the OL documentation, but gave up as it seems to be
targeting the systems developer crowd, not the application developer
side.
Here my question, just like Conde's: Are there any HTML/JS code examples
for 
A) connecting to a server like my WAMP/Apache/MS4W setup and
B) OL specific code to insert shapefiles into my Map?
Cheers,  Gerd
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Dr Gerd R Dowideit
School of Geography, Planning and Architecture
The University of Queensland
Chamberlain Building, Room 508
phone (07) 3365 3538 (work)
          (07) 3289 2325 (home)
e-mail: g.dowideit at uq.edu.au


-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Schmidt [mailto:crschmidt at metacarta.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 2:01 AM
To: conde
Cc: users at openlayers.org
Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Shape?s?

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:56:20PM -0300, conde wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I am a new on this. 
> 
> I want to use OpenLayer on a project and I want to use my own shape
data
> files (.shp) how I can do this? Only with OpenLayer.

You can't. OpenLayers is a client side display application. You will
need server side software to serve the data as vectors or render it into
images -- most likely, you're looking for a WMS Server like MapServer or
GeoServer.


Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta