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On 04. 08. 11 05:37, Ian wrote:
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On Wednesday, August 3, 2011 9:49:18 PM UTC-5, Josh Doe wrote:
<blockquote>On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Stephan Knauss <span><<a
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What would be the coolest way to zoom? I thought of a slippy
map with transparency above the regular tiles.<br>
Others mentioned presets like continent/country.<br>
I could also imagine to let you set an arbitrary bounding
box based on a zoom level.<br>
eg you say you want to see zoom level 13 and then you get a
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<div>Coolest would definitely be transparent tiles, as it's
the most versatile. You (or others) could then implement
presets for countries/states, take advantage of OpenLayers
shift+click+drag zoom functionality, etc.</div>
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<div>You may want to consider using Google's Fusion Tables for
this. Their map view will generate heat maps out of millions of
points quite quickly. Plus, you could easily add a selection to
narrow the maps down by user. I don't think you need to display
Fusion Tables tiles in their API, either. Technically it's easy
to add to OpenLayers but their terms might say otherwise.</div>
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What about OpenLayer clusters
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/strategy-cluster.html">http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/strategy-cluster.html</a> ?<br>
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Yves<br>
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