[OpenLayers-Users] GML layer choice for putting photos on a map,
clustering?
Christopher Schmidt
crschmidt at metacarta.com
Wed May 13 18:30:14 EDT 2009
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 06:26:41PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> (Sorry if this is OT.)
>
> I have a basic openlayers 2.8rc2 install on my server, with
> OSM/{mapnik,tah} and OAM. I have a bunch of geotagged photographs, and
> would like to render them on the map. My needs are pretty simple -
> basically I want:
>
> when there aren't too many photos, a small thumbnail
>
> click on thumbnail pops up a bigger one, maybe with some text
>
> when there are too many, some sort of clustering icon instead
>
> I think I want to user the cluster strategy in the examples as
> strategy-cluster*, and either georss from flickr example, GML, or KML.
> But, it would be a slightly plus, but not much, if I published the
> photos as WFS. I would also like to minimize work.
>
> What GML language do people recommend? I have a slight bias towards a
> truly open specification, so that makes me lean towards atom/georss.
I always use GeoJSON. Easy, fast, openly specified, supported by a
number of web-centric tools, and fits well with the Javascript model.
-- Chris
> Are there tools I should use, given a directory of images with exif gps
> data, and perhaps caption files? I found
>
> http://code.google.com/apis/kml/articles/geotagsimple.html
> http://www.geowebguru.com/articles/108-technical-overview-georss
>
> and it seems like a simple perl script to write georss from a directory.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
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