[OpenLayers-Users] adding .shp layer

[David Fawcett]

Jeremy,

You may also want to explore an OpenSource Web mapping solution, like
MapServer,  that can create a WMS from shapefile data.

David.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Christopher Schmidt
<crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:37:08PM -0400, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
>> I see the arcgis example in the FAQ section that uses a png layer from
>> ArcGIS server.  But does anyone know if openlayers supports a shapefile
>> format?
>
> In general, OpenLayers works with images; you can also work with vectors
> in some formats, but the way to display a 'map' is to display it by
> first rendering it to images.
>
> ESRI has a "WMS Connector" for their ArcGIS Server products, as I
> understand it, that will allow the server to act as a WMS that
> OpenLayers can talk to.
>
> Additionally, ESRI has some tools to create pre-cached version of tiles:
> these can (as far as I know) be generated from either vector or raster
> data: the key thing is that for OL to consume it, it has to be in either
> an image format (WMS) or to be one of our supported vector formats (GML,
> KML, GeoJSON, GeoRSS, etc.)
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
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