[OpenLayers-Users] Google-like tiles in an example

[Erik Uzureau]

I was thinking specifically of the "I have a custom gmaps layer, how
can I use that in OpenLayers?" question... but if you say that's
already done, then golden!

Maybe it would be good to add an entry to our FAQ to point people to
that example, though?

I don't know much about any of this stuff, I'm only commenting based on a vague
notion I get from the emails that whiz by on the list. :-)
erik

On 3/5/08, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:43:56AM -0600, Erik Uzureau wrote:
> > Chis, do you think it would be helpful if we added this or a similar
> > example to the /examples directory?
> >
> > ...or is there maybe an example already there that does this?
>
> Which part?
>
> The spherical-mercator example shows how to use a custom function to
> load tiles from a Google-like tile layout (via the OSM tiles, one of the
> more widely used like-google tile layouts).
>
> Having an example which shows all the various getLonLatFromPixel stuff
> isn't so important to me (maybe others think it matters): I think we've
> got a couple of those based on click events and so on already.
>
> Reprojecting the center point from lonlat to spherical mercator is done
> in a couple demos, but I suppose it could use an example of its own:
> however, I'd likely want to make it better documented (more text) rather
> than just more code, since 'more code' isn't the ansewr for helping
> people understand the problem.
>
> http://crschmidt.net/~crschmidt/spherical_mercator.html#reprojecting-points
> is my solution for that, rather than an example, though I know that I
> haven't pushed hard enough on it yet.
>
> So, what do you think?
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
>