On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:06:32PM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Lars Aronsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I use the scroll wheel to zoom in and out of the slippy map, > > whether on www.openstreetmap.org, maps.yahoo.com, or > > maps.google.com, the screen goes blank for a short while before > > the tiles of the new zoom level arrive. At Google Maps, some red > > corners move about showing whether I'm zooming in or out. > > > > Would it be possible, in JavaScript, to show the existing tiles, > > rescaled by the browser, until the new tiles arrive? > > When OpenLayers can do that, then yes we will do it. As it happens > that is going to be in the next release I believe.
Yep. > > If this was possible, I guess the browser could also emulate finer > > grades (half-levels) of zooming. It would make for a less bumpy > > user experience. > > That is also something that the next release of OL is expected to > be able to do I believe. Not for OSM tiles: fractional zoom is only for services that allow arbitrary bbox requests. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
