Drawing circles on map using openlayers

Question

I want to draw circles of certain radius on a map using openlayers . But the latitude,longitude & radius values are given in a excel sheet. I badly need a help from you people to how to carry in this work in openlayers. I heard that openlayers doesn't take data from excel sheet. so to which format I have to change my excel file? And how to draw circles on the map? It will be greatful if you can provide me the code(atleast sample code)

Answer 1

Circles in Openlayers

http://geographika.co.uk/samples/geodesic/

http://geographika.co.uk/creating-a-geodesic-circle-in-openlayers you will need your data in json - Google Spreadsheets can do this

http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/feed/key/worksheet/public/basic?alt=json-in-script&callback=myFunc

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/samples/spreadsheet_sample.html

Answer 2

Hi it has a built in function called createRegularPolygon that can be used like this:

var circle = OpenLayers.Geometry.Polygon.createRegularPolygon(
    new OpenLayers.Geometry.Point(0, 0),
    1,
    30
);