[OpenLayers-Users] base layer for wms

[Greg Allensworth]

On 10/24/2012 6:31 AM, Manuel Arredondo wrote:
> I have been trying to find a good world map to display overlaying wms
> data from various sources and haven’t had much luck.

If you want a tiled basemap in Mercator, you may be interested in 
Mapbox. Among their offerings is a fabulous new terrain basemap, which 
feels a lot like Google's terrain layer: green hillshades far out, city 
labels closer in, then down to streets.

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