[OpenLayers-Users] Is it possible to have an OverviewMap for a vector layer?

[Bart van den Eijnden]

If you just leave out the layers parameter alltogether, the overview map will by default clone the baselayer of your map.

Best regards,
Bart

On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:13 PM, sasamil wrote:

> 
> I had a lot of troubles with this, too.
> 
> IMHO the problem exists regardless of the layer type (it can be vector, wms,
> wfs,... whatsoever).
> As I remember the point is to use baselayer.clone() instead of baselayer and
> the scale of overview should be carefully set in the options (ovOptions in
> my example code). It is also possible to incorporate more than one layer in
> overview, but the first one need to be a baselayer.
> 
> This is a piece of my code that works!
> 
>    var ovOptions = {
> 				maxExtent: new OpenLayers.Bounds(7380500, 4670500, 7670500, 4960500), 
> 				units: 'm',
> 				projection: new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:31277"),
> 				scales: [1700000]
> 	                  };
>    var overview = new OpenLayers.Control.OverviewMap({layers:
> [baselayer.clone(), layer_ovode, layer_ogradovi], mapOptions: ovOptions});
>    map.addControl(overview);
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