[OpenLayers-Users] Hover control sample (share)

[Andreas Hocevar]

Hi Alexandre,

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Alexandre Dube <adube at mapgears.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I saw your example a couple of days ago.  It's a great tool.  As
> vector features are longer to draw than samples images generated by WMS
> requests I find this quite useful.
>
> The slow rendering of vector features has been one of my worries.  A
> common practice is to normalize the geometry for a given scale or have
> different data per scale on the server side.  With that in mind, I
> wanted my vector layer to load features from different data source.  See
> the example :
>
> http://dev4.mapgears.com/bdga/options-by-zoom-hover-bdga.html
>
> This combine the above idea ( multiple data sources ) with the Hover
> control.  The result is quite fast.  What do you think ?

This is a good idea! But it seems there is a lot of work to do on the
server side to prepare all the different detail levels for a WFS. Are
you using WPS for that?

Andreas.

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