Not currently documented as part of the API (should be), but LineString and MultiLineString geometries have a split method.
http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Geometry/LineString-js.html#OpenLayers.Geometry.LineString.split If you have one feature named "knife" and another named "worm", then you could get the relevant parts as follows: var parts = knife.geometry.split(worm.geometry); Tim On 8/4/10 2:08 AM, Chris Green wrote: > Hi all > > I am wondering if there is a way to use the split control to split line > features programmatically rather than by a user identifying on a sketch > layer where a split should be made? > > I can determine in javascript where I want to split the feature and I > don’t want the user involved – does anyone know a way to do that? > > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Tim Schaub OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
