[OpenLayers-Users] loading heavy WFS. solutions?

[Eric Lemoine]

Hi.

We got pretty good results here by using WMS along with
GetFeatureInfo-like queries with Handler.Hover. The features resulting
from a query can be added to a vector layer and/or to an external grid
with 1:1 interaction between the grid records and the features on the
map. We found this to be a good tradeoff between user interaction
(vector) and performance (raster).

Cheers,

Eric

2008/9/18, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com>:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 03:10:00PM -0700, percy wrote:
>> how would the click handler deal with hover events for a WMS of polygon
>> features?
>
> It wouldn't. You'd use a Hover Handler for something like that. But the
> user didn't mention that aspect of things.
>
> There are limitations to what you can do in the browser. Displaying 12MB
> of binary data as vectors are about 11.9MB beyond them.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
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