[OpenLayers-Users] GeoRSS and Custom Icons

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:54:42PM +0200, Eric Lemoine wrote:
> 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

As Andreas pointed out, this is a flaw in naming. This is simply for
'historical reasons' -- It was named that way early on, before I really
knew what I was doing. (It was named, for example, before we had
formats, back when it really *was* about GML.)

The GML and WFS layers can essentially be thought of two different
strategies: GML is a Layer which uses a "Fixed" strategy, and WFS is a
Layer which uses a "BBOX" strategy.

Both of them are tied to the HTTP Protocol.

It's unfortunate that they're named this way, but that's one of the
things that the vector behavior work is changing: once we've refactored
things, we can start creating layers that actually make sense for their
names :)

So yeah, using another format with Layer.GML or Layer.WFS is totally
expected and encouraged -- even though the names are pretty bad.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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