[OpenLayers-Users] Layer: Name and Title

[Lance Dyas]

Lance Dyas wrote:
> Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:
>   
>> Hi list,
>>
>> currently an OpenLayers Layer object only has a name property, and this is
>> used for display.
>>
>> If you would introduce the concept of group layers, you could have the
>> situation where you want to give the same name to multiple layers (since
>> this is also displayed in the GUI).
>>
>> Would it not be better to have both a title and name property on the Layer
>> object?
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
> How about something more akin to.  Title and Descriptions and Grouping Objects which also have Titles and Description 
> emulating the structure of KML, then the Sidebar could be a tree structure which encorporates information about its
> nature by way of its structure. Even what are normally single layers could have sub layers and groups... Google Earth Sidebar
> like
>
> http://www.dyasdesigns.com/geoxml/florida.html
> I know its not openlayers
>
>   
errr oops
http://www.dyasdesigns.com/geoxml/florida.htm