Indeed, minScale > maxScale in OL. See: http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/SettingZoomLevels
Best regards, Bart Bill Thoen wrote: > Thanks... I never would have guessed that. Is the sense of "max" and > "min" backwards as well? In other words, does maxscale apply to the > largest denominator or the largest scale (1/denominator)? To put it more > explicitly, if I set maxscale to 100000 does that mean that the layer is > visible between 1:1 and 1:100,000 or that it is visible only at scales > smaller than 1:100,000? > > Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> minScale and maxScale should be denominators, so use 100000 and not >> 0.00001. >> >> Best regards, >> Bart >> >> Bill Thoen wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to get a WMS layer to appear only within a specific scale >>> range , and I not having any luck setting minscale and maxscale >>> properties when I load the layer onto the map. For example, I want >>> one layer land parcels to show from 1:1 up to 1:100,000 scale, so I >>> set minscale to 0.00001, expecting that once I zoom out to say, >>> 1:120,000, the land parcel layer should have its visibility property >>> set to false and the layer should be invisible. But it continues to >>> stay visible. >>> >>> Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong? (I'm using OpenLayers 2.7, >>> in case that matters.) >>> >>> - Bill Thoen >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> Users@openlayers.org >>> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > -- Bart van den Eijnden OSGIS, Open Source GIS bart...@osgis.nl http://www.osgis.nl _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users