[OpenLayers-Users] Newbie questions

[Ian Turton]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Joe Public <joepub1962 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The problem I'm having is: when I click on the map, I get "info" for the
> base layer (which is blank of course) and the other layer(s) if they are
> checked....
> So my question: is there a way to make it so that when I click on the map,
> only info the top most layer appears in the popup box? Also, if you click on
> the base layer (the other layers are un-checked) the popup box does not show
> up

Look at the list of layers in your getfeatureInfo request - just
remove the layers you don't want to show up.

>
> My other issue:
>
> I have data that was collected on various things about the parcels and
> lots... This data is stored in
> tables in the database.... The only links these tables/data have with the
> shape files are  the name and id variables....
> Question: Is there a way to include info from the tables in the pop display
> along with the getfeatureinfo information when I click on the map?
>

You'll need to load the shapefiles in to PostGIS and then create a
view of the joined tables.
http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/PostGIS+DataStore shows how to do
this.

Ian
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Ian Turton

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