On Dec 16, 5:16 pm, marcelo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 16, 5:45 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > You might try using a tile layer if your grid lines up with lat/long.
>
> On a Mercator projection, a rectangular grid will always line up with
> lat/lon, only that the rectangles on the screen would not represent
> rectangles on the ground.
> Still, the tile layer is probably the only way to display as many as
> 70K rectangles, but since the OP wants the grid to be clickable, it
> would also involve some point in polygon analysis, and with so many
> polygons it would have to be done on the server side.
> Not the simplest solution, but without knowing any more details about
> what he wants to achieve, that's the way I'd go.
>
> --
> Marcelo -http://maps.forum.nu
> --

For a simple grid, click analysis could be done in the browser by
truncating the Lat/Lon coordinates to the same precision.  For complex
non-rectangular polys, an additional click structure is required.

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