<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">That's how I've been handling it <a href="http://njstateatlas.com/">with my site</a>. I'd prefer to keep the State Plan polygons under the roads/labels. I tried a similar construction with OpenLayers - I was able to get the roads/labels to show up alone, with a gray background. <div><br></div><div>I've <a href="http://www.rowan.edu/colleges/las/departments/geography/GEOLAB/luc.html">switched some other Google Maps mashups to OpenLayers</a> when the roads/labels weren't necessary. I'd love for OL to have this functionality. Right now, when presentation is a priority, I stick with GM, when I need editing tools, tilecaching, etc., I use OL.</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 6, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Andrew Turner wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Christopher Schmidt<br><<a href="mailto:crschmidt@metacarta.com">crschmidt@metacarta.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:02:55PM -0400, John J Reiser wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hello OpenLayers!<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I was wondering if it was possible to overlay the roads/labels layer from<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Google Maps on top of a WMS layer. Right now, using the roads/labels from<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the G_HYBRID_MAP type either creates a layer with a solid gray background<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">or appears under the WMS layer.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">This is outside the design of OpenLayers. I have seen users hack things<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to do it, but it's hard.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The problem is that fixed layers (Google is fixed because when you drag<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the map, it doesn't shift) live in a different DOM hierarchy, which<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">makes solving this task more difficult.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I would say that at this point, you'd probably be better using Google<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Maps directly to solve this problem than OpenLayers.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>Outside of OpenLayers specifically, I've done this by loading in<br>alternate TileLayers using the Google API (via Mapstraction). You just<br>need to get the Tile template URL and lower opacity. It's definitely<br>not a terrific solution, but workable.<br><br>It seems like OL could potentially do this as well?<br><br>Andrew<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>