Hi David, I will consider thematic mapping with WMS at a later stage.
"European Interactive Atlas Explorer" is a good example: http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/wms_client/ The disadvantage is lack of interactivity on the client. Bjorn http://blog.thematicmapping.org David Fawcett wrote: > I can think of another option, but it is a fairly big change of course. > > Instead of sending RSS to OpenLayers and building the vector features, > you could use MapServer to create a transparent WMS layer with your > features in it. That way, you could use LAYER SYMBOLSCALE to scale > your symbols. > > David. > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Christopher Schmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:48:09AM +0200, Eric Lemoine wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Bjorn Sandvik > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > My question: Is there a way to keep the relative size of the > symbols > > > when the users zoom in/out? > > > > AFAICT there's no way to style features based on the current > zoom level. > > I'm pretty sure that the StyleMap/Style/Rule system is designed > exactly > for that, but I have no idea how it's supposed to work. > > I would say "look at http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Styles";, but > I see > that it's using Rules for styling, which I think was recently decided > would be unsupported in OpenLayers 2.6, so I don't know what you're > actually supposed to do. > > Andreas? Tim? > > Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
