[OpenLayers-Users] changing Base layers

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Mon Oct 29 22:24:39 EDT 2007


On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:42:06PM +1100, bradleyspencer wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> I guess I am really dumb but its never clear to me how these different
> methods are supposed to be used. I am not a trained OO programmer and find
> the documentation a little confusing (my problem :))
> 
> So, I tried this:   map.setBaseLayer(newBaseLayer)
> 
> Where newBaseLayer is the name of the base layer set up at Load time.

So, if you add two base layers to the map, then doing that should work.
I assume by 'name' you mean 'variable name', rather than anything else.

If all else fails, looking at the code to the layerswitcher mouse
handling methods might help you.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta



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