[OpenLayers-Users] Web-app with ablilty to save or send openlayers current map with written comments?

[Phil Scadden]

> I am starting to program a web app which is based on having an openlayers map to serve information from Geoserver. I would like there to be a side bar which lets the users save the current map window and write a comment about the given map section or even sketch additional information onto the map. After this has been done, I would like to save the map into a database together with the users comments. An alternative would be to just let the user send the map and sketch per email without saving it.
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My thoughts are you have to do this server side. The sidebar needs to 
get the comments and then pass them to a servlet which will write them 
to a database. Got a question mark them on passing up an image of the 
map or whether you can pass url, extent, size etc to servlet which then 
runs a copy of openlayers to recreate the image.
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