We aren't using open layers, its a completely custom written site. It could definitely be done, but then there would be a lot of processing going on the background x 3 and I don't think thats practicle. I also thought about just physically moving the shapes closer to the US, but theres about 15 layers that would have to be updated, that still might just be easiest though. I was hoping there was maybe someway I could use mapservers querymap feature to do this, but I guess not?
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Stephen Woodbridge < [email protected]> wrote: > If you are using something like OpenLayers under the hood, you might just > create three separate maps, one for each region. You can set the maxextents > for each map to prevent scrolling outside that area. > > This way each map would have its own controls and its own div and each > could respond to events in their respective div. > > This is definitely not a mapserver issue, but it is an interesting problem. > > -Steve > > Julie Knoll wrote: > >> Thats what I originally thought about doing, but I don't know how I would >> go about converting it to the right coordinates when the user clicks on the >> map. The site I'm working on is http://geofred.stlouisfed.org There's so >> many other things going on server side to calculate the data and what not >> that maybe its just not worth the effort. >> >> Julie >> >> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Stephen Woodbridge < >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Julie Knoll wrote: >> >> Hi, I am working on a site that displays thematic data for the >> United States, and I would like to include small maps for Alaska >> and Hawaii in the corners of the main map, rather than having to >> zoom so far out to see them. Does anyone have any suggestions >> about the best way of going about doing this? Thanks. >> >> >> This is really a composition problem where you need to compose a >> single image from multiple separate images. The answer really >> depends on what media you are using like html, pdf, etc. >> >> If you are trying to do this in a web application I would recommend >> an approach some like: >> >> Using PHP/Mapscript, generate you three images and then use PHP GD >> to compose the three images into a single image and then return that >> to the browser. You can use a similar approach if you are using PDF >> depending on the PDF lib you are using. >> >> -Steve W >> >> >> >
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