[OpenLayers-Users] Re: Can't get WFS to work.

[David Fawcett]

Andy,

The limitation is really about how browsers handle data as DOM elements.

The reality is that in most cases, people don't need to display
hundreds or thousands of features as vectors.

If you don't need to interact with the features directly (editing
them), it may be acceptable/preferable to have your server send the
data to the OpenLayers client as a Web Map Service (WMS), which is an
image of the styled data.  You can even support querying the data by
using a WMS service that supports GetFeatureInfo.

When people need to interact with the features, they may use a WMS
until the user zooms in far enough, and the switch over to a vector
layer.

David.

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 12:07 AM, sulu <andreas.siegel at vorarlberg.at> wrote:
> Hi Davit.
>
> Ok. The OL-WIKI confirms it ;-).
> This seems to be quite a bit of a constraint for the use of vector data.
> Is is therefore unreasonable to think about an OL-Client which uses an areal
> photo as background to display the cadastre on top?
> Cadastre-features are mostly simple but there can be many of them.
>
> Andy
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