On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 03:10:32PM -0400, Ali Khan wrote: > Hey all, new to open layers. Right now i'm trying to develop something > similar to that CIA factbook where one can click on a country and get > the details. I've got the click stuff down and how to grab the > coordinates but what i dont understand is how to figure out the country > by the coordinates. I noticed witih the fact book it takes the > coordinates and i believe makes a box from them with max and min > long/lats and does something from there?
Posts to the server, and interprets the response. The server is MapServer in this case. > Can anyone help me shed some light on this? Is there a general file that > has the country data and coor that i can call on to get the country name > from? MapServer does this against the dataset it's rendering. http://data.freemap.in/view/DataSet/1 has a couple different copies of the data for download. http://openlayers.org/presentations/mappingyourdata/ might help you get started with mapping the data. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
