discussion -> LayerSwitcher -> layer groups

[Lars Schrader]

Hello,

two years ago Jachym Cepicky (jachym) developed an extension for the LayerSwitcher:
-> http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1086
With this patch it's possible to use groups inside the layer tree.
I tried it with OpenLayers 2.8. I think it's a very nice and simple feature.

Is it a good idea to commit the patch into the trunk? I think for some implementation solutions it would be very helpful to have such a simple possibility to create groups inside the layer tree.

Greetings, Lars

[Andreas Hocevar-2]

Maybe a plugin would be more appropriate, since everyone seems to have
a different idea about the LayerSwitchee.

Also, make sure to check out http://geoext.org/, which provides a rich
set of tree components for Layer control, including different kinds of
grouping -- on top of OpenLayers.

Look at http://dev.geoext.org/trunk/geoext/examples/tree.html.

Regards,
Andreas

2009/10/19, Lars Schrader <[hidden email]>:

>
> Hello,
>
> two years ago Jachym Cepicky (jachym) developed an extension for the
> LayerSwitcher:
> -> http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1086
> With this patch it's possible to use groups inside the layer tree.
> I tried it with OpenLayers 2.8. I think it's a very nice and simple feature.
>
> Is it a good idea to commit the patch into the trunk? I think for some
> implementation solutions it would be very helpful to have such a simple
> possibility to create groups inside the layer tree.
>
> Greetings, Lars
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[Sebastian Benthall]

I'm +1 on having some sort of support for layer groups in OpenLayers.  Especially now that allOverlays is an option, it seems to me that some sort of low level support for guaranteeing certain properties of layer ordering, for example, would be useful.

Whether or not it makes sense to couple this configurability with UI elements in OpenLayers trunk is another question.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Andreas Hocevar <[hidden email]> wrote:

Maybe a plugin would be more appropriate, since everyone seems to have
a different idea about the LayerSwitchee.

Also, make sure to check out http://geoext.org/, which provides a rich
set of tree components for Layer control, including different kinds of
grouping -- on top of OpenLayers.

Look at http://dev.geoext.org/trunk/geoext/examples/tree.html.

Regards,
Andreas

2009/10/19, Lars Schrader <[hidden email]>:

>
> Hello,
>
> two years ago Jachym Cepicky (jachym) developed an extension for the
> LayerSwitcher:
> -> http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1086
> With this patch it's possible to use groups inside the layer tree.
> I tried it with OpenLayers 2.8. I think it's a very nice and simple feature.
>
> Is it a good idea to commit the patch into the trunk? I think for some
> implementation solutions it would be very helpful to have such a simple
> possibility to create groups inside the layer tree.
>
> Greetings, Lars
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://n2.nabble.com/discussion-LayerSwitcher-layer-groups-tp3848497p3848497.html
> Sent from the OpenLayers Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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