[OpenLayers-Users] how to save polygons or lines

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 12:51:27AM -0700, R. Ortner wrote:
> 
> i addet the EditingToolbar to my map and now i like to save the drawn
> polygons and lines to a file so that i can racall them when i reload the
> map. is that possible?

It's possible to serialize features to a number of formats:

http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/vector-formats.html

Once you do, it's possible to push that data up to a server using
OpenLayers.Ajax.

Using that mechanism, you can save your data to the server, like
the FeatureServer demo does: 

http://featureserver.org/demo.html

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta