I just dont think we should always think of GeoServer in terms of google maps. my point about using Untiled is that it always gives you the best possible map for the bounding box/zoom level you have specified. That's what WMS is for. A tiled solution is never guaranteed to give the best map; it's optimized for an entirely different thing -- scaling, and showing a good map most of the time.
This is why we (or at least I!!) use spend so much time and energy gathering all our data and putting it in databases and using GeoServer and writing good SLD's -- to get really nice maps for whatever window we choose, not just for a handful of fixed zooms and and tile-granularities that suffice for making money on local search. Which reminds me -- the application/openlayers result should perhaps have the more-flexible ZoomBox control than the PanZoomBar. I know that you can get this if you hold shift and drag a zoom rectangle on the map, but I discovered that totally by accident.
thanks,
mike
Really, the label conflict resolution problem is a global problem,
if anybody has smart ways to partition it into smaller pieces without
affecting the result, I would be glad to hear.
Cheers
Andrea
Michael Frumin ha scritto:
I just dont think we should always think of GeoServer in terms of google maps. my point about using Untiled is that it always gives you the best possible map for the bounding box/zoom level you have specified. That's what WMS is for. A tiled solution is never guaranteed to give the best map; it's optimized for an entirely different thing -- scaling, and showing a good map most of the time.
This is why we (or at least I!!) use spend so much time and energy gathering all our data and putting it in databases and using GeoServer and writing good SLD's -- to get really nice maps for whatever window we choose, not just for a handful of fixed zooms and and tile-granularities that suffice for making money on local search. Which reminds me -- the application/openlayers result should perhaps have the more-flexible ZoomBox control than the PanZoomBar. I know that you can get this if you hold shift and drag a zoom rectangle on the map, but I discovered that totally by accident.
I just committed the fix allowing to swith between tiled and untiled mode, and added GetFeatureInfo as a bonus (click and get feature infos).
Regarding zoom, I could add a tool to do zoom window, all right, but
it would be anyways using the fixed zooms. There is no much I can do
about that (or else, afaik it's possible doing quite a bit of javascript
programming, but that would not be OL anymore...)
Cheers
Andrea