As shown in the source of http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/graphic-name.html openlayers supports custom symbols, defined as vectors.

There might be some use-cases where this is interesting. For example, the rectangle from the above page, could be used to create a very simple barchart overlay (with each layer presenting a value as a different rectangle, each with a different offset.)

With that, you can for example, create a map like this.

Just wanted to jot this down, as i found it in the source of some file. Filed as minor.

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zzolo commented
Version: 6.x-2.0-alpha10 » 6.x-2.x-dev

Hi @batje. I think this is a good feature request. But it may be worth looking into the Style Plugins to see how these can put together:

http://drupal.org/node/710908

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batje commented

yup, surely going to wait for a stable release of that before even thinking of any implementation.

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zzolo commented
Version: 6.x-2.x-dev » 7.x-2.x-dev

Bumping this up to 7.x.

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zzolo commented
Version: 7.x-2.x-dev » 7.x-3.x-dev

Bumping to v3. :)

Patches welcome to v2, but resources for this module are pretty thin and we should focus on a stable release.

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milos.kroulik commented
Priority: Minor » Normal
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Can we higher this task's priority? From my research it seems, that this should be the way to create easily recolorable SVG symbols. For a start, it would suffice to create simple interface for adding new symbols by manually inserting the coordinates into textarea (and specifying the name).

It may also make sense to create new spin-off feature request for adding ability to upload SVG files and convert them to symbols.