[OpenLayers-Users] Adding Text to map.... possible?

[plen]

Andreas,

Thanks for the reply.  I am happy to hear that others have thought of this
type of capability.  I will look for the functionality in later OL versions.

Thanks again - Peter



Andreas Hocevar-2 wrote:
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:16 AM, plen <peteralen at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> I am using the OpenLayers drawing controls to add points, lines, and
>> polygons.  Our customer would like to also add text to the map, in
>> addition
>> to the other objects.  This would allow the user to add some text (ex.
>> "Drive straight on this road") and place it on the map (pin it to a geo
>> coordinate).  I have not seen anything that would indicate that this is
>> possible but I wanted to throw it out there to see if I may have missed a
>> possible solution.
> 
> There is a patch providing this functionality which needs some more
> work: http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1895
> 
> I am currently working on it to make the feature available in the 2.8
> release of OpenLayers, which is scheduled for April.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas.
> 
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