[OpenLayers-Users] GeoRSS and Custom Icons

[Eric Lemoine]

Although i find it weird to use a GML layer with a format different
than GML i agree that it's good to avoid code at the application
level. Thanks Andreas. Eric

2008/6/25, Andreas Hocevar <andreas.hocevar at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Eric Lemoine <eric.c2c at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Levii Smith <smithlev at levii.com> wrote:
>> If I were you I wouldn't use Layer.GeoRSS. Instead I would trigger my
>> own Ajax request to get the GeoRSS document, use Format.GeoRSS to
>> unserialize the GeoRSS doc into features, and add the resulting
>> features to a simple vector layer (Layer.Vector). And I would rely on
>> OpenLayers' styling framework to style the features based on their
>> attributes. See the georss-flickr.html example which more or less does
>> this.
>
> In OpenLayer 2.6 you can also use OpenLayers.Layer.GML with an option
> format: OpenLayers.Format.GeoRSS. That will issue the Ajax request,
> create features from the response and add those to the layer. I just
> modified the georss-flickr example to make use of that, which saves
> some amount of custom code.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas.
>