[OpenLayers-Users] tricky pan/zoom backgroundimage to get ...

[Maik Finsterbusch]

hi there,...
... and thank you, welcoming in this list.
i get a new experience with openlayers and am a new user, also thank you all for
this. ;)

but here a new(?) nice idea:
to get a more feeling, working openlayers like a desktop gis, i want to lay an
wide more extented (and less solutioned, maxextent by the way is most useful)
layer in the background of my mapimage.
thus, if you pan the map you will see all the map with a border, may be.
if you zoom out, the backgroundimage will appear (if you zoom in, you only get a
better view until the reload).
just like a real zoom. ;)

is there a possibility to get this involved or does this feature already exists?

nice greetings and best regards from germany, thuringia, jena,
(and thanks reading my confusing, broken english ;)
maik finsterbusch.