[OpenLayers-Users] Reverse geocoding with Nominatim an OpenLayers

[Hendrik Oesterlin]

"Stephen Woodbridge" woodbri at swoodbridge.com wrote on 05/03/2011 at 14:33:14 +1100
subject "[OpenLayers-Users] Reverse geocoding with Nominatim an OpenLayers" :

> I do not think there is a canned example of what you are asking.
> The strategy for doing this would be to add a double click handler which
> would make an ajax request back to your server and your server would 
> need to forward that request to the Nomination service, get the results
> and send it back to your ajax response handler. The response handler 
> would then parse the results, create a pop-up and add the response 
> content to the pop-up, and then add the pop-up to an appropriate layer.
> This implies that you have a layer specifically for add in the pop-up(s) to.

> So break this down an look for examples that do:

> 1. double-click handlers
> 2. ajax request
> 3. framed-cloud pop-up

> You will probably need to create a simple ajax handler on the server 
> maybe a little PHP code.

> Hope this helps,
>    -Steve

Thank you for the advice. I will try this.

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Sincerely 
Hendrik Oesterlin - email hendrikmail2002 at yahoo.de