[Tilesathome] Any objections

[Sebastian Spaeth]

Matthias Julius wrote:
> Sebastian Spaeth <sebastian at sspaeth.de> writes:
> 
>> Pubs on the other hand would be a nice candidate for a POI overlay layer
>> that can be switched on/off. We could afford some more clutter then.
> 
> And ideally this would not be a tiled layer.  Instead the client
> applications would download pubs from XAPI and display an icon with
> caption on the map for each of them.  Can OpenLayers do such a thing?
> It would be quite insane to try to host tiled layers for each POI type
> (pubs, restaurants, fast food places, gas stations, post boxes, ...).

Yes, one layer per item would be insane. Having one switchable POI layer
for all kinds of POIs though would be quite feasible. Of course, more
control would be nice, theoretically....

Yes, OpenLayers can dynamically show stuff like that, and the recent
version even understands .osm files, I think. However, it becomes
incredibly slow with many points to draw. I once made a map of WLAN
hotspots in Zurich and it brought the browser to a halt. (FF3 is
supposed to be much better, I had tried that with FF2).

spaetz