Hi, On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Ivo Brodien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Can I make OpenLayers request SVG as the format against a WMS?
No, because there is no default way of representing vector features in SVG. And every vector layer that OpenLayers can handle consists of features (i.e. geometries + attributes). > 2) What does the SVG Render exactly do? I heard it is only used in > Firefox, but it is not used for the map data? The renderer draws features, i.e. it uses the geometries (repesented as OpenLayers.Geometry) that are stored as feature property. And since there are browsers that do not support SVG, there are also VML and Canvas renderers available. So if you really need vector data, I would recommend to use WFS instead of WMS as backend (in the case of navigation, a GeoRSS would probably make sense as format if you want to update tracks incrementally). Otherwise I would suggest using WMS with image/gif or image/png8 as format, which is usually less data and faster. BTW, OpenGeo is currently working on an OpenLayers based blogging application for the iphone, which takes advantage of some of the none-mouse events provided by the iphone. See http://svn.opengeo.org/mobile/IOL/trunk/, example usage is shown here: http://svn.opengeo.org/mobile/demos/OL-investigation/iol.html. This is really new, whit will write a blog post about it later today (http://docs.opengeo.org/geospiel/). Feel free to contact him directly if you want to know more. Regards, Andreas. -- Andreas Hocevar OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
