[OpenLayers-Users] Confusion regarding shape file?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 11/15/2015 1:36 PM, sukbir singh wrote:
> Hi All,
>             Currently I have my application run well on google map. My
> client now have a shape file for a specific country. He needs us to run
> the same functionality which we have in google map done on this
> shapefile. So in order to run a shape file must I install e.g.
> GeoServer. Then upon that I got to run open layers. How am I going to
> integrate google map into open layers? Am I moving on the right path?
> Thank you.

I think you need to provide a little more information. From you 
description, it sounds like you have write an application based on gmap 
api. Now you have a shapefile,

what do you want to do with that?
* edit the shapefile data?
* display it as a base map?
* do you need vectors from the shapefile to manipulate?
* or just to render the shapefile as a map?
* etc

Without know what your app does and what you want to do with the 
shapefile data, it is hard to make recommendations.

-Steve