Here is a good document that helped me populate popup boxes using a wms. My data sites in a PostgreSQL database.
http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/GetFeatureInfo Hope this helps... jtrsmith wrote: > > I am new to openlayers, so please excuse my lack of knowledge here. > > I have set up a map of my college campus in openlayers and would like > to add some functionality to it. > > What I am looking to do is have locations ( prefferably rectangular > polygon areas ) set up that when clicked will open a popup and show a > photograph of the location. I have a database set up in SQL with the > names, locations, and photographs. I am just not sure how to get the > information to show on my map. > > I did look at the examples, some of them help, but I am still unsure > how I can use the database information on my map. I have added a popup > to my map using the example in select-feature-openpopup, however I am > unable to add multiple locations with different information. Should I > be using an XML document to populate my map? How would I set up > openlayers to get that information? > > Sorry for the long post, can anyone point me in the right direction? > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Mapping-areas-from-database-tp4208682p4230350.html Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
