Thanks Michael - much appreciated. Does anyone have a link to the LineAnimator example?
On 6 Aug 2011, at 15:15, Michael wrote: > I believe that Andreas has updated a function that would help in this regard > called "tween", I think > > Unaware of that, I built a rather complex animation tool. You can see a > temporary example at http://track.pacificcup.org/track.php?race=transpac > > Select a boat from the left of the screen and then use the vcr controls at > the top to animate. > > It works by maintaining an array of points that parallels the points in the > linestring. At selected intervals, I add a point from the array to the > linestring. Then I clear the linestring at the end. > > To do fancier stuff, like go in reverse, I added a time attribute to each > point, so I can count backwards through the vertices (points) of the > linestring till I get to one that is older than the new cutoff time, deleting > the newer ones. > > The code is, well, complex, because the page is doing a bunch of other > things. I keep meaning to extract an example, and perhaps I should! > Meantime, it IS possible. > > Michael > > On 8/6/2011 4:12 AM, Luke Mackenzie wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> This page contains a broken ink to an animated polyine example (Line >> Animator): >> >> http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/wiki/UserRecipes#Other >> >> Does anyone have a copy of this example? I would like to know if ti would be >> possible to create an effect like this using openlayers: >> >> http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_cartrip2.htm (click start). >> >> I actually don't need the map panning or to follow driving directions as my >> use case requires a generic world map with the polylines linking major >> cities. A closer example would be animated flight paths. >> >> I would be extremely grateful if anyone could provide the missing example or >> offer any advice on how to achieve this. I've been playing with the >> cloudmade leaflet maps here: >> >> http://jsfiddle.net/codecowboy/XkShV/22/ ( I want to animate the red line - >> I will need to dynamically add lines to the map based on lat/longs and >> distance covered by users) >> >> Many thanks, >> >> Luke Mackenzie >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users
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