[OpenLayers-Users] setting WKT returned from postGIS in form field to openlayers feature

[Eric Lemoine]

Hi. We cannot guess what's going on without seeing actual code. If you
use the read method of OpenLayers.Format.WKT keep in mind that it
returns an OpenLayers.Feature.Vector object. Eric

2008/10/31, Burgholzer,Robert <rwburgholzer at deq.virginia.gov>:
> I forgot to give the openlayers error:
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> Error: feature.geometry.getBounds is not a function
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> Source File:
> http://172.16.209.70/html/devlib/OpenLayers-2.7/OpenLayers.js
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> Line: 325
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> Robert W. Burgholzer
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> Surface Water Modeler
>
> Office of Water Supply and Planning
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> Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
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> rwburgholzer at deq.virginia.gov
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> 804-698-4405
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> Open Source Modeling Tools:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at openlayers.org [mailto:users-bounces at openlayers.org]
> On Behalf Of Burgholzer,Robert
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 11:51 AM
> To: users at openlayers.org
> Subject: [OpenLayers-Users] setting WKT returned from postGIS in form
> fieldto openlayers feature
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> My application returns a WKT representation of an element geometry in a
> hidden form field.  I am trying to take that geometry and push it into
> an openlayers feature layer, so that as the user goes views different
> elements from the PG server, those features appear in the foreground on
> the OL map.
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> I have tried to implement some code from the WKT example, but I am not
> having any luck.  The feature fails to draw, although I know it is
> there, because I have been using an alert() to show me the contents of
> the WKT string.  Thus, I am guessing that somehow my format returned
> from PostGIS is incorrect.  Here is the contents of my hidden form
> field:
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> MULTIPOLYGON(((-8623549.09290489 4522549.65191948,-8623596.86604756
> 4522931.83706085,-8623635.0845617 4523629.32494386,-8624131.92524548
> 4523591.10642972,-8624619.21130074 4523619.77031532,-8625488.68249736
> 4523610.21568679,-8626224.3888945 4523552.88791558,-8626319.93517984
> 4523552.88791558,-8626597.01940734 4523849.08140015,-8626721.22957829
> 4524040.17397083,-8627256.28877621 4523973.2915711,-8627390.05357569
> 4523954.18231403,-8627409.16283276 4523715.31660067,-8627447.38134689
> 4523581.55180119,-8627265.84340474 4523266.24905955,-8627208.51563353
> 4523103.82037447,-8626979.20454871 4522884.06391818,-8626616.12866441
> 4522759.85374724,-8626052.40558088 4522654.75283335,-8625555.5648971
> 4522444.5510056,-8625240.26215547 4522243.90380638,-8625058.72421331
> 4522463.66026267,-8624724.31221461 4522501.87877681,-8624514.11038686
> 4522406.33249147,-8624237.02615936 4522234.34917785,-8623959.94193187
> 4522234.34917785,-8623644.63919024 4522282.12232052,-8623549.09290489
> 4522549.65191948))
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> Any help would be most appreciated,
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> r.b.
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>
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> Robert W. Burgholzer
>
> Surface Water Modeler
>
> Office of Water Supply and Planning
>
> Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
>
> rwburgholzer at deq.virginia.gov
>
> 804-698-4405
>
> Open Source Modeling Tools:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/
>
>
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>