[OpenLayers-Users] Question on using Google Maps API on top of OpenLayers

[Dr. Franz-Josef Behr]

Mike,

Christopher Schmidt wrote:

 > One of the features I beileve you mentioned wanting was the ability to
 > have popup automatically slide into view. Great, in theory. Except that

What's about calling a small function which recenters the map before 
poping up the popup?

 >> like a lot of us need better popups and this could be a way to 
provide it

I'd like to say that I appreciate the clarity of OL's popups instead of 
Google's toy-like ones.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards / Cordialement

Franz-Josef Behr


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Christopher Schmidt schrieb:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 05:53:32PM -0600, Mike Carsella wrote:
>> Can you at least entertain the idea of exposing the GMap2 object?  It looks 
>> like a lot of us need better popups and this could be a way to provide it 
>> easily until better OL popups are developed.
> 
> Unfortunately, doing so leads to a whole host of other problems.
> One of the features I beileve you mentioned wanting was the ability to
> have popup automatically slide into view. Great, in theory. Except that
> as soon as that happens, the Google Map has moved without the OpenLayers
> map moving at the same time. The end result is that OpenLayers and
> Google have a different idea of where the map is centered, which results
> in crazy behavior in extreme cases, but in all cases is going to be
> behavior that users don't want.
> 
> The events model in OpenLayers doesn't cooperate well with Google popups
> -- zoomboxing and letting go over one will get your zoombox 'stuck' so
> it can't be released.
> 
> etc.
> 
> What seems like a simple solution leads to a number of interface
> issues. Not exposing the object is a design decision based on this type
> of problem, and although I understand the desire, it's not something we
> can support without creating more problems than we solve.
> 
> Regards,