[OpenLayers-Users] Mapping website visitors with OpenLayers?

[David William Bitner]

For no clicks, I would just serve it as a MapServer WMS coming out of a
PostGIS database as an image.

On 2/7/07, Alexandre Leroux <alexandre.leroux at ec.gc.ca> wrote:
>
>
> Hi list,
>
> I'd like your advice on my next OpenLayers mission :-) What would be the
> best way to map a thousand points using OpenLayers? In case you wonder,
> those points would simply be, say, the last 1000 visitors of a website.
> So there's no need for popups or big markers. A simple static
> unclickable dot might do.
>
> Would using a thousand markers from a textfile with
> OpenLayers.Layer.Text be advisable? Is there another mean with
> OpenLayers that would be more appropriate that I haven't discovered?
> Would there be a way to generate "density maps" (the density of visitors
> in that case; colored pixels based on the number of dots below each
> pixel) directly with OpenLayers?
>
>
> I've looked at all the examples. I've been quite impressed by OpenLayers
> so far (e.g. layer opacity, getfeatureinfo, overview maps).
> Congratulations :-)
>
> Thank you for your feedback!
>
> Alex
> --
> Alexandre Leroux, M.Sc., Ing.
> Environnement Canada / Environment Canada
> Centre météorologique canadien / Canadian Meteorological Centre
> Division de la réponse aux urgences environnementales /
> Environmental Emergency Response Division
> alexandre.leroux at ec.gc.ca
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