[OpenLayers-Users] new user question

[Eric Lemoine]

On Nov 9, 2007 5:04 PM, Greg Steffensen <greg.steffensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently discovered openlayers and am very impressed.  But I'm
> wondering what the easiest way to implement what seems like a common
> need- labels for countries and/or cities.  The easiest way, of course,
> would be to use Google/Yahoo/Multi maps as the background layer, but
> I'm going to have to serve from tilecache, which means I'm basically
> stuck with WMS.  Browsing through the documentation, it looks like the
> normal way is either a WFS layer or letting a WFS server like
> MapServer do it with GIS data.  Is that correct?  Also, does anyone
> know of a good free data source for country or city labels, however
> it's connected?  Thanks,

Hi Greg,

If your data has labels then you should be able to have your map
server generate maps with labels. I'm not sure I understand your
question, but it seems to me that your issue's more related to your
map server than OpenLayers.

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Eric