There were other issues with my code - I tried to start with an out of date example of pgRouting from http://pgrouting.postlbs.org/wiki/Workshop-DrawRoute
Here is a page which details some other changes that are necessary to get this code to work against version 2.5 http://tainavn.blogspot.com/ Christopher Schmidt-4 wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:14:52PM -0700, geoman wrote: >> >> I'm new to OpenLayers; I'm evaluating it for a current project. I'm going >> to >> be getting WKT for road segments from a database, and I want to highlight >> those segments on a map. However, I haven't been able to get past this >> error: >> Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "String contains an invalid >> character" code: "5" nsresult: "0x80530005 >> (NS_ERROR_DOM_INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR)" location: >> "http://openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js Line: 554"] > > The WKT format returns Features, not geometries. > >> var wkt = "LINESTRING(-73.9444 40.75921,-73.96892 40.76396)"; >> var geometry = parser.read(wkt); >> var feature = new OpenLayers.Feature.Vector(geometry); > > Should just be: > >> var wkt = "LINESTRING(-73.9444 40.75921,-73.96892 40.76396)"; >> var feature = parser.read(wkt); > > > Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/draw-a-line-on-a-map--tp16689097p16705780.html Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
