[OpenLayers-Users] Show polygon vectors as points

[Eric Lemoine]

Hi François. It seems to me that everything you need is in trunk. Look
at the examples that use externalGraphics, OpenLayers.StyleMap, and
OpenLayers.Style. Eric

2008/7/4, François Van Der Biest <f.vanderbiest at gmail.com>:
> 2008/7/2, Tim Schaub <tschaub at opengeo.org>:
>>
>> Hey-
>>
>>
>> Zer wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > Is there anyone that knows if it is possible to "convert" or just show
>> > vector polygons (from GML) as points instead of vectors? I would like to
>> > present the center coordinate aswell as the polygon.
>>
>>
>> We've done some work to allow rendering non-point geometries with a
>> single marker.  To do this, you specify an externalGraphic property on
>> the symbolizer used to render your feature.  This does not allow
>> rendering *both* the polygon and the graphic.
>
>
> Hi Tim,
> I'd be very happy to have this code handy, as I might use it for some
> project. Is it somewhere in a sandbox or so ?
> My main interest would be to automatically switch to a (vector) point
> representation of features when the scale is reduced enough that displaying
> polygons makes no sense.
> I might also need to have a specific styling for them ... but this is
> another story ;-)
> Thank's,
> F.
>