On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 07:07:55PM -0600, MilesTogoe wrote: > since kml is now an open standard, are there any projects working on > native kml rendering in OpenLayers (ie without having to connect to > Google with their api keys,etc)? There seems to be an abundance of > rendering options: KML, OL vector drawing, SVG, ... and it would be > helpful to standardize more on one.
http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/KMLParser.html http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/kml-layer.html http://dev.openlayers.org/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Format/KML-js.html http://docs.openlayers.org/library/layers#gml http://crschmidt.net/mapping/kml It's not clear to me why you describe KML as a 'rendering option', or why you seperate "OL vector drawing" and "SVG". KML is a serialization format for geographic data with styling information. OpenLayers has support for parsing this format -- as well as many others. OpenLayers typically parses this information into Vector Features, which can then be drawn -- depending on the application, and the browser, in one of VML, SVG, or Canvas, using the Renderer framework. These are all components of a set of tools for interacting with serialized geography and turning it into an interactive map in a browser. "Picking one" is like saying "We should pick one: HTTP, HTML, or Javascript" -- they're all different components of a stack needed to make things happen. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
