Re: [Gwt-openlayers-users] Google Maps Issue

[AbdElhadi <abd...@gm...>]

Thanks Edwin. I appreciate it.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Edwin Commandeur <com...@gm...
> wrote:

> Hi AbdelHadi,
>
> Thanks for giving feedback on using the Google Maps layer. I really
> appreciate that you share your experiences.
>
> Issue 1 you are describing is something that I have seen before for WMS
> layers on Firefox, but only in a Ext-GWT app (strangely enough it does not
> happen in the showcase). Up to now I have not been able to track down the
> problem. This is one to drill down on when I have some time, because it is a
> nasty problem.
>
> Issue 2 could have something to do with the isFixed property of EventPane,
> but that is purely upon glancing the API docs. Anyway, I added
> EventPaneOptions and GoogleOptions now extend this class.
>
> The function setSphericalMercator is a setter for the sphericalMercator
> property of the Goolge Layer in OL. It also strikes me as strange to have
> such a property on the Google Layer itself, as it affects the entire map,
> but it looks like a convenience feature of OL to set a property on the
> Google Layer in order to make vector layers and the like work.
>
> Greetings,
> Edwin
>
> 2009/7/6 AbdElhadi <abd...@gm...>
>
>>  Hi all,
>>
>> I was able to get a Google map to show up but not without many issues. All
>> I had to do is to add the google maps api script call to the host html and
>> add the following to my code:
>>
>> //      create a google maps layer
>>         GoogleOptions ggLayerOptions = new GoogleOptions();
>>         ggLayerOptions.setSphericalMercator(false);
>>         Google ggLayer = new Google("Google Base", ggLayerOptions);
>>         myMap.addLayer(ggLayer);
>>
>> The issues I am getting are as follow:
>>
>> 1- First, on page load, the GoogleMaps layer seems to cover a small area
>> of the map extent until there is a resize event then it takes the same
>> dimensions as the MapWidget.
>> 2- GM doesn't respond to pan/move events when you use
>> setSphericalMercator(true). Also, why is there such a function since all
>> Google Maps are in Spherical Mercator?
>>
>> I am still playing with this and will report on more as I find them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Abdelhadi
>>
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