Jeremy, You may also want to explore an OpenSource Web mapping solution, like MapServer, that can create a WMS from shapefile data.
David. On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:37:08PM -0400, Jeremy Jackson wrote: >> I see the arcgis example in the FAQ section that uses a png layer from >> ArcGIS server. But does anyone know if openlayers supports a shapefile >> format? > > In general, OpenLayers works with images; you can also work with vectors > in some formats, but the way to display a 'map' is to display it by > first rendering it to images. > > ESRI has a "WMS Connector" for their ArcGIS Server products, as I > understand it, that will allow the server to act as a WMS that > OpenLayers can talk to. > > Additionally, ESRI has some tools to create pre-cached version of tiles: > these can (as far as I know) be generated from either vector or raster > data: the key thing is that for OL to consume it, it has to be in either > an image format (WMS) or to be one of our supported vector formats (GML, > KML, GeoJSON, GeoRSS, etc.) > > Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
