Although this may not be of immediate use, but OpenLayers 3 has overlays that allow you to anchor arbitrary markup to a position on a map.
Andreas. On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Mikulicic, Vladimir < vladimir.mikuli...@br.de> wrote: > Hi Przemek, > > this is, in my opinion a big problem of Openlayers. We got the same > problem too. Before we used Bing-Maps API, and there it's normal to create > HTML-Markers. > I am wondering that in the OL-Community is no need for HTML Markers > ....excpecially Markers which could be completly controlled. > The same increddible problem, in my opinion are the Popups... its horrible > to see, that the popup-background is an background-image that comes from > the OL-API. > > But back to your Problem... we solved that ... like this: > > http://www.netzwolf.info/kartografie/openlayers/htmlmarker.htm > > This is the only Implementation i found, that deals with HTML and u can > use it like Markers. > > Our solution with HTML-Markers is: http://www.br.de/weather (Map with > html Markers) > > Greets > Vladimir > ________________________________________ > Von: openlayers-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [ > openlayers-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]" im Auftrag von > "Przemysław Prokopow [pr...@post.pl] > Gesendet: Freitag, 6. September 2013 11:51 > An: openlayers-dev@lists.osgeo.org > Betreff: [OpenLayers-Dev] Car icon and details formated with html instead > of plain text - please help me > > Hi, > I use OpenLayers libary in my project to display objects on a map. > > I wounder if anybody will be able to help me with my problem. > > I need to show a car icon with following details: > - car name (label above a car icon) > - car icon > - status bar (one line bar with different color showing a status, eg. red > bar means alarm, green means car is moving, grey car is parked) > - car parameters (text with car speed, fuel level, distance and rpm) > > OpenLayers libary let you to display one icon and one plain text. > There is no way to program in OpenLayers text a status bar and text above > and below needs to be the same color, and to make vertical space you need > to > use some characters, eg. dots that looks ugly on the interface. > > I need to modify OpenLayers source code and implement the design as I need. > Probably the way to change a OpenLayers source code would be to change in > the proper place JavaScript source, so it would accept HTML instead of only > plain text. Then use HTML to implement a design. > > Could you please advice me, where in a source code should I look to modify > the code? > What do you think about such modification? Is it possible and do you > foreseeing any problems with it? > > I would greatly appreciate any advice or help from you. > > > Przemek > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > d...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bayerischer Rundfunk; Rundfunkplatz 1; 80335 München > Telefon: +49 89 590001; E-Mail: i...@br.de; Website: http://www.BR.de > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > d...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev > -- Andreas Hocevar OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ Expert service straight from the developers.
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