[OpenLayers-Users] Identify feature by attribute

[Greg Allensworth]

On 1/8/2013 2:16 PM, Jerome A. Wendell wrote:
> Greg,
> Thank you very much for your reply.  Is there a way to
> input the feature identifier, or would that have to
 > be coded in a script?

You would need to write your own logic to figure out which Feature is 
the one you want. Fortunately, the Vector Layer's .feature" attribute 
can be iterated easily, and Features have their .attributes attribute. 
So you can loop like this:

var feature = null;
for (var i=0, l=VECTORS.features.length; i++) {
    var f = VECTORS.features[i]
    if (f.attributes.state_name == 'Maryland') { feature = f; break; }
}

if (feature) CLICKER.select(feature);
else alert ("Not found!");


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