I tried searching the mailing list (the server threw an exception). " HTTP ERROR: 500
url=http://old.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?forum=15906&local=y&query=selecting+the+city+beneath+the+mouse user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 referer=http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users RequestURI=/forum/Search.jtp Caused by: fschmidt.util.servlet.JtpContextServlet$JtpRuntimeException: url=http://old.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?forum=15906&local=y&query=selecting+the+city+beneath+the+mouse user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 referer=http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users ... " Google wasn't of great help either. So I apologize in advance if the question has been answered before (probably many times over). What I would like to do is pretty simple (from user perspective): 1. User clicks on a city/state/country (depending on the zoom level) on a Google map or OpenStreetMap The selected city/state/country is then displayed to the user. Based on my research so far, the ways to accomplish this are: a) Have a kml based overlay with country, state borders and city points. Use OpenLayers support for selecting "features" and then display the appropriate info b) Use a WFS to obtain feature info for a given location On approach a) I have to display the kml depending on zoom level etc. (Possible definitely but is that the only way?) b) I am not sure whether I can use a open WFS server such as opengeo.org for that purpose. Ideally I would like to be able to do this offline (which I guess means approach a) ) but I would like to hear your thoughts before digging in. Thanks Hara Arcot -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Finding-the-country-state-city-beneath-the-mouse-click-tp6202172p6202172.html Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users
