[OpenLayers-Users] visualize vertical section with openlayers

[Trond Michelsen]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:59:35PM +0100, Alexander Barth wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm using openlayers to visualize 3 dimensional ocean data (e.g.
> temperature,...). So far I managed to draw horizontal section
> (longitude and latitude) using a custom Python script as a web map
> server. Is it also possible to visualize vertical section (longitude +
> depth or latitude + depth) with openlayers?

Not directly. What you could do is to create new cgi-script that
creates the vertical section, then make a vector layer with lines
representing the different vertical sections that are available, and
use OpenLayers.Control.SelectFeature to trigger a callback that opens
a popup with an img-tag pointing to your vertical section cgi-script.

I did something similar, but with wave spectrums and a point layer, a
while back. It shouldn't be too hard to adapt.

http://crusaders.no/~trondmm/ol7.html

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Trond Michelsen