[OpenLayers-Users] Grouping Features into "one" feature using Styles or other means

[David Fawcett]

Also, if you don't need the vector feature funcionality (and you are
using a server product capable of serving a WMS), you might think
about using a WMS layer and dealing with the scale-dependent rendering
on the server side.

David.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Christopher Schmidt
<crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 04:07:27PM -0800, Jonathan Sawyer wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I have a feature class of points that displays a breadcrumb trail of GPS
>> points for a target. When zoomed out to the full extent of the map,
>> OpenLayers renders 1000+ points in a tiny little area, thus reducing
>> performance of my application. Is there a way I can tell OpenLayers to
>> render just one point for a bunch of points within a given radius of the
>> point? For example, when zoomed out to the full extent, I would rather have
>> 1 to 3 points rendered rather than 1000+, but then be able to see every
>> point applicable when zoomed in.
>
> Clustering.
>
> http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/strategy-cluster.html
>
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> Jon
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