a'ite, this question is neither mapserver-specific nor OL-specific (two
technologies that I am using gung-ho right now), but both would be involved in
developing something that I describe below --
you know, how in Google Maps you can type pretty much any location's name, and
if it finds a match in its database, Google Maps zooms to the boundary of that
location. For example, if I type
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Zurich,+Switzerland
or
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Dane+County,+WI
or
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+York+City
the map zooms to the bounds of that location. This is what I want to develop,
for the entire world. I guess the starting point would be the geonomes
database, except, if I understand correctly, geonames does not have the bounds
of locations. Instead, it has only the centroids of locations.
A better way might be something like the following --
I am using Google Maps as my base layer anyway. Could I somehow submit a search
through my application to the Google Maps base layer, return the bounds and
zoom to that?
Thoughts? Suggestions?
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