Sorry, didn't mean to be a wiseguy Marcello :) Think ill be implementing the clientside solution for our MapServer, any possible reduction on load it a welcome one :)
2010/2/21 Marcelo <marcelo...@hotmail.com> > On Feb 21, 1:41 pm, Björn Brala <bbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It seems tho that the tiles are loaded even when the layer is hidden. > Sure > > its fast when you click, but it might slow down other donwloads > > Yeah, yeah... I know that, but it's only a transparency demo, not an > application on a production site. > > -- > Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu > -- > > > > > > > > > 2010/2/21 Marcelo <marcelo...@hotmail.com> > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 12, 2:53 am, Steve D <bigd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I realized I needed to deal with missing tiles. (I'm guessing > > > > your cgi script is doing that for you) Anyway, this seemed to get > rid of > > > > the little red x's that were showing up all over my map: > > > > > > tile.onerror = function(){this.onerror=null; this.src='./none.png';}; > > > > > Steve, > > > > > Yes, my CGI script serves a blank tile when the requested tile is not > > > found on disk. > > > However, I like your client side solution, as it would allow the > > > single blank tile to be cached and reused by the browser. > > > > > -- > > > Marcelo -http://maps.forum.nu > > > -- > > > > > > -Steve D > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Marcelo <marcelo...@hotmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > On Feb 10, 5:43 pm, Steve D <bigd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Doesn't currently work in Opera 10.10, though it does look nice > > > Firefox > > > > > > 3.5.7. I'm thinking I might just go back to v2 though. > > > > > > > It now works on Opera 10.10 as well. I'd be interested to hear from > > > > > anyone using Safari on a Mac. > > > > >http://maps.forum.nu/v3/gm_customTiles.html > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Marcelo -http://maps.forum.nu > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > -Steve D > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Marcelo <marcelo...@hotmail.com > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Custom overlays with opacity here: > > > > > > >http://maps.forum.nu/v3/gm_customTiles.html > > > > > > > > > Only tested in Chrome 3, FF 3.011 and IE7 so far. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > Marcelo -http://maps.forum.nu > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > On Feb 9, 4:43 am, Steve D <bigd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Ahh, thanks! > > > > > > > > > > -Steve D > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Chad Killingsworth < > > > > > > > > > > chadkillingswo...@missouristate.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > > That's because there isn't one in the ImageMapType object. > > > You'll > > > > > have > > > > > > > > > to use a custom overlay such as > > > > >http://search.missouristate.edu/map/mobile/examples/tileoverlay.js > > > > > > > > > > > Chad Killingsworth > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 8, 6:36 pm, Steve D <bigd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I'm in the process of learning my way around javascript > and > > > the > > > > > > > google > > > > > > > > > > maps API. Decided to go the route of using the V3 since > it > > > > > appears > > > > > > > to > > > > > > > > > > have everything I need, while being much more readable. > > > > > > > > > > > > The only thing I *think* I'm missing now is being able to > set > > > the > > > > > > > > > > opacity of my tile layers. > > > > > > > > > > > > My test case code is basically from this example: > > > > > > > > http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/v3/examples/maptype-tr. > > > > > > > .. > > > > > > > > > > > > Modified to work with the png tiles I've created. They > show > > > up > > > > > and > > > > > > > > > > all, and it looks quite nice, except that I can't set the > > > opacity > > > > > of > > > > > > > > > > the tiles, as unlike the roads in the example code, my > tiles > > > > > cover > > > > > > > > > > large blobs of area and it really would be beneficial if > I > > > could > > > > > see > > > > > > > > > > the detail through them. > > > > > > > > > > > > As I don't have the data on web server, here's the > relevant > > > code: > > > > > > > > > > > > var coverage = new google.maps.ImageMapType({ > > > > > > > > > > getTileUrl: function(coord, zoom) { > > > > > > > > > > return "Z" + zoom + "/" + coord.y + "/" + coord.x + > > > ".png"; > > > > > > > > > > }, > > > > > > > > > > tileSize: new google.maps.Size(256, 256), > > > > > > > > > > isPng: true > > > > > > > > > > }); > > > > > > > > > > > > var map; > > > > > > > > > > function initialize() { > > > > > > > > > > map = new > > > > > google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas")); 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