[OpenLayers-Users] enabling map.fractionalZoom crashes SphericalMercator layers (Google/Yahoo and maybe others)

cgp carina_palanca at forcorp.com
Thu Sep 24 10:32:07 EDT 2009


Hmm ok. On that note, what other map APIs out there support fractional zoom?
I'm guessing none?
If that feature is absolutely crucial in our application, do we have to
construct our own maps (base layers) that support fractional zoom?





Eric Lemoine-2-2 wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, September 23, 2009, cgp <carina_palanca at forcorp.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I had the same problem a while ago with the Google base layers, and if I
>> remember correctly, it had something to do with the fact that Google map
>> tiles have fixed zoom levels, which means that it doesn't support
>> fractionalZoom.
> 
> Right. You cannot use fractionalZoom when using google, or any other
> fixed-resolutions layers.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> http://groups.google.co.in/group/Google-Maps-API/browse_thread/thread/f7ac15c824a7b0c6
>>
>> Like I said, that was a while back (about 2 months ago) and I haven't
>> tried
>> it since. Maybe they've added support to that or something. Who knows?
>>
>> I don't know about the other layers: Yahoo, Virtual Earth etc as I have
>> not
>> worked with them.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> BrainDrain wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all!
>>> I'm a Little Confused. Simply adding fractionalZoom: true to map options
>>> (or for ex. here:
>>> http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/spherical-mercator.html) crashes my
>>> webapp (on map.zoomToMaxExtent())!
>>> I use my huge amount of vector data (map server output projection is
>>> spherical mercator) as an overlay to google map. And I need
>>> fractionalZoom! How can I fix that???
>>> Look in to the attachment.
>>>  http://n2.nabble.com/file/n3702339/SpericalMercator.zip
>>> SpericalMercator.zip
>>> Thanks.
>>>
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