Brad, Yes. Once you have the information inside the application DOM you can build select boxes, tables, etc so that the users can interact with them.
Have a look at one demonstrator I built with GoogleMaps API (its not much different with OpenLayers). http://demo.cubewerx.com.au/bi_demo.html Cheers, Brad Spencer -----Original Message----- From: Bradley McLain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2007 10:07 AM To: Linda Rawson; bradleyspencer Cc: OpenLayers Users Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] OpenLayers Read From Text File @ Linda I have been told that it would be preferable not to directly access the information, they would prefer that the information is dumped nightly to something else (text file or another database) and then accessed that way. I thought that a text file would be the easier option, given the smaller size and ease of maintenance. @Brad, this sounds like the kinda of thing that I want to do. Doing it this way will I be able to build some sort of interface that allows users to search and display the markers that they want? Cheers Brad On 27/11/2007, Linda Rawson < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Why don't you just create a database view of the information and make it available via a web service and your users would always have up to date information. Linda On Nov 26, 2007 3:12 PM, Julien-Samuel Lacroix < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Hi, You have a great resource of examples here: http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/ Check the markersTextLayer.html example to have an example of a layer that comes from a csv file. ( http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/markersTextLayer.html <http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/markersTextLayer.html> ) There's also use gml (see the gml-layer.html) if you prefer xml files. Julien Bradley McLain wrote: > Ok what I am trying to do is to have a progress database dump all > relevant information about various locations in some form of text file > nightly. > > I then want to use OpenLayers to read from/query this file and display > the relevant information. > > I was wondering if this is possible to do, can OpenLayers read/query a > text file such as a csv or xml? > > Cheers > > Brad > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Julien-Samuel Lacroix Mapgears http://www.mapgears.com/ _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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