[OpenLayers-Dev] Re: [Openlayers-Users] Map data popups on Google overlays

[Martin Saturka]

Hello,
I tried the Bing layer, but it has two problems:

1) Some tiles are placed wrongly, they are around the right positions,
but still exchanged into wrong tile positions. The result is a funny
mosaics.

2) Putting the Bing layer into base layers causes event horrible
problems. When I click on a pop-up window, that pop-up window takes it
as a close event, and together with it puts a that clicking into the
map, even though close events are ended at the pop-up closing methods.
This mayhem only starts after some time (a few minutes) of map moving
and poi / pop-up clicking, thus it may be a reason why it was not
noticed.

As a result, the Bing layer is unusable now.

M.

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Andreas Hocevar <ahocevar at opengeo.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for those of you in need of commercial tiles, but not willing to bother with problems that come from the interaction between OpenLayers and external JavaScript APIs, the new OpenLayers.Layer.Bing with direct tile access may be a good option. Read more about it in this blog post: http://openlayers.org/blog/2010/12/18/bing-tiles-for-openlayers/
>
> Regards,
> Andreas.
>
> On Dec 17, 2010, at 20:12 , Martin Saturka wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> one possibility to deal with the "map data popups" at google v 3.3 is to change the repositionMapElements method on OpenLayers.Layer.Google class - to comment out two lines there:
>> //termsOfUse.style.display = "";
>> //cache.termsOfUse = termsOfUse;
>>
>> This works well for me for both v3.2 and v3.3 of Google API.
>>
>> The v3.2 puts map data providers and terms of use link as a text, but it can be wider than the actual map div. Then you will not see the whole string.
>> The v3.3 detects it, and when the data providers string is too large, it just puts a link to the popup with the data providers. It is better then, since you can see the strings appropriately.
>>
>> It looks that OL is confused by the change and supposes that the popup is something to be shown (without clicking for it).
>>
>> M.
>>
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