Chris, this works really well for me in firefox on macosx. Excellent find.
Paul On 21-Nov-07, at 8:20 AM, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > Sigh. Sending emails at 3:45 is worse than committing at 3:30. This > went > to the osm-dev instead of ol-dev list. > > -- Chris > > ----- Forwarded message from Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- > > From: Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:49:34 -0500 > Subject: [OSM-dev] Faster Commercial Layers > > The three commonly used commercial layers -- Google, VirtualEarth, and > Yahoo -- now each have a mechanism using the internals of their > respective APIs to grab faster ways to move map tiles around. > > http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/spherical-mercator.html now > demonstrates this. > > Erik reports that IE is throwing an error. Since is it 3:45 in the > morning, I'm going to go to sleep now, get an early start and try to > hack on the IE issue first thing before work, and get it resolved. > > In the meantime, Firefox browsers might be interested in checking the > uRL above and checking out the other APIs. > > (Note that Yahoo/VE both have weird ideas about what to do when > viewing > the whole world -- best to zoom in a couple notches.) > > Additionally, there is an option on the EventPane layer class: > > {Boolean} smoothDragPan determines whether non-public/internal API > methods are used for better performance while dragging EventPane > layers. > When not in sphericalMercator mode, the smoother dragging doesn’t > actually move north/south directly with the number of pixels moved, > resulting in a slight offset when you drag your mouse north south with > this option on. If this visual disparity bothers you, you should turn > this option off, or use spherical mercator. Default is on. > > Feedback welcome; I'm hoping that at least some if it will be positive > :) > > Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Paul Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chief Technology Officer | |DM Solutions Group Inc http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
