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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Steve, <br>
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      Thanks so much for you replies. I would like to try to set the
      visibility scale threshold.  Any advice how to do this would be
      great.  Below is my init function where I do set the maxExtent. 
      But I am guessing that by visibility scale threshold you mean
      setting predefined scaled.  I am not really show how best to
      determine the predefined scales. My map is in EPSG 4326.<br>
      <br>
      <i>function init() {<br>
            <br>
            //Data stored as left, bottom, right, top floats.<br>
            bounds = new OpenLayers.Bounds();<br>
            bounds.extend(new
        OpenLayers.LonLat(-131.30859375,23.745610382199022));<br>
            bounds.extend(new
        OpenLayers.LonLat(-58.18359375,48.50874245880332));<br>
            bounds.toBBOX(); <br>
                          <br>
            map = new OpenLayers.Map('map', {<br>
                controls: [<br>
                    new OpenLayers.Control.Navigation(),<br>
                    new OpenLayers.Control.Permalink(),<br>
                    new OpenLayers.Control.ScaleLine(),<br>
                    new OpenLayers.Control.Permalink('permalink'),<br>
                    new OpenLayers.Control.PanPanel(),<br>
                    new OpenLayers.Control.MousePosition(),<br>
                    new OpenLayers.Control.OverviewMap(),<br>
                    new OpenLayers.Control.KeyboardDefaults()<br>
                ],<br>
                numZoomLevels: 16,<br>
                maxExtent: bounds<br>
            });<br>
            <br>
             map.addControl( new OpenLayers.Control.PanZoomBar(), new
        OpenLayers.Pixel(800,0));    <br>
            <br>
            var streetMap = new OpenLayers.Layer.ArcGIS93Rest(<br>
                'ESRI Streets', <br>
               
        '<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Street_Map/MapServer/export?f=image">http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Street_Map/MapServer/export?f=image</a>',
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                {layers: 'show:0'},<br>
                {<br>
                    buffer: 2<br>
                }<br>
            );    <br>
            <br>
            var stateMap = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS(<br>
                'States', <br>
                '<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linuxserver/html/vlayers">http://linuxserver/html/vlayers</a>', <br>
                {layers: 'states', transparent: true},<br>
                {<br>
                    isBaseLayer: false, <br>
                    transitionEffect: 'resize',<br>
                    buffer: 2<br>
                }<br>
            );<br>
            <br>
            var </i><i>rasterlayer</i><i>= new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS(<br>
                'rasterlayer', <br>
                '<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linuxserver/html/ews">http://linuxserver/html/ews</a>', <br>
                {layers: 'layerofinterest', transparent: true},<br>
                {<br>
                    isBaseLayer: false, <br>
                    transitionEffect: 'resize',<br>
                    buffer: 0         <br>
                }<br>
            );    <br>
        <br>
            map.addLayers([streetMap, stateMap, fcavLayer]);<br>
            map.setCenter(new OpenLayers.LonLat(-98.0859375,
        39.095962936305476), 5);<br>
            <br>
            info = new OpenLayers.Control.WMSGetFeatureInfo({<br>
                    url:
        '<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rain.nemac.org/~derek/fswms/html/vlayers">http://rain.nemac.org/~derek/fswms/html/vlayers</a>', <br>
                    title: 'Identify features by clicking',<br>
                    queryVisible: true,<br>
                    eventListeners: {<br>
                        getfeatureinfo: function(event) {<br>
                            map.addPopup(new
        OpenLayers.Popup.FramedCloud(<br>
                                          "Feature Info:", <br>
                                         
        map.getLonLatFromPixel(event.xy),<br>
                                          null,<br>
                                          event.text,<br>
                                          null,<br>
                                          true<br>
                                          ));<br>
                        }<br>
                    }<br>
                });<br>
            info.infoFormat = 'application/vnd.ogc.gml';<br>
            map.addControl(info);<br>
            info.activate();<br>
        }//END OPENLAYERS
        INIT--------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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