On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Volker Mische <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01.08.2010 10:53, Benoit Chesneau wrote: >> >> I'm looking for a way to limit number of points retrieved for an area >> depending on its size. Ie When playing with the zoom on the map I want >> to be able to only display and retrieved only main points instead of >> all the points in this area. Is there a simple way to do that actually >> ? >> >> - benoit > > Hi Benoit, > > there a two ways. Either introducing a "limit" parameter, but that's > probably not what you want. It would limit to a arbitrary selection (not the > "main points" as you'd like to have it). > You probably want clusters. My suggestion is to do it on the client side > with OpenLayers' cluster strategy [1][2]. > > [1] http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/strategy-cluster.html > [2] http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/strategy-cluster-threshold.html > > Cheers, > Volker > This solution doesn't work when you have a lot of points though. Do you plan to add such things to geocouch ?
- benoit
