[OpenLayers-Users] Google-like tiles in an example

[Erik Uzureau]

So it turns out all this was already set up. For anyone looking for
help setting up google tile site, see:

http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#HowdoIloadtilesIhavethatIgeneratedforGoogleMapsinOpenLayers

thanks chris for pointing that out.
erik

On 3/5/08, Erik Uzureau <euzuro at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was thinking specifically of the "I have a custom gmaps layer, how
> can I use that in OpenLayers?" question... but if you say that's
> already done, then golden!
>
> Maybe it would be good to add an entry to our FAQ to point people to
> that example, though?
>
> I don't know much about any of this stuff, I'm only commenting based on a vague
> notion I get from the emails that whiz by on the list. :-)
> erik
>
> On 3/5/08, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:43:56AM -0600, Erik Uzureau wrote:
> > > Chis, do you think it would be helpful if we added this or a similar
> > > example to the /examples directory?
> > >
> > > ...or is there maybe an example already there that does this?
> >
> > Which part?
> >
> > The spherical-mercator example shows how to use a custom function to
> > load tiles from a Google-like tile layout (via the OSM tiles, one of the
> > more widely used like-google tile layouts).
> >
> > Having an example which shows all the various getLonLatFromPixel stuff
> > isn't so important to me (maybe others think it matters): I think we've
> > got a couple of those based on click events and so on already.
> >
> > Reprojecting the center point from lonlat to spherical mercator is done
> > in a couple demos, but I suppose it could use an example of its own:
> > however, I'd likely want to make it better documented (more text) rather
> > than just more code, since 'more code' isn't the ansewr for helping
> > people understand the problem.
> >
> > http://crschmidt.net/~crschmidt/spherical_mercator.html#reprojecting-points
> > is my solution for that, rather than an example, though I know that I
> > haven't pushed hard enough on it yet.
> >
> > So, what do you think?
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Christopher Schmidt
> > MetaCarta
> >
>