That's how I've been handling it with my site. I'd prefer to keep the
State Plan polygons under the roads/labels. I tried a similar
construction with OpenLayers - I was able to get the roads/labels to
show up alone, with a gray background.
I've switched some other Google Maps mashups to OpenLayers when the
roads/labels weren't necessary. I'd love for OL to have this
functionality. Right now, when presentation is a priority, I stick
with GM, when I need editing tools, tilecaching, etc., I use OL.
John
On Aug 6, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Andrew Turner wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Christopher Schmidt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:02:55PM -0400, John J Reiser wrote:
Hello OpenLayers!
I was wondering if it was possible to overlay the roads/labels
layer from
Google Maps on top of a WMS layer. Right now, using the roads/
labels from
the G_HYBRID_MAP type either creates a layer with a solid gray
background
or appears under the WMS layer.
This is outside the design of OpenLayers. I have seen users hack
things
to do it, but it's hard.
The problem is that fixed layers (Google is fixed because when you
drag
the map, it doesn't shift) live in a different DOM hierarchy, which
makes solving this task more difficult.
I would say that at this point, you'd probably be better using Google
Maps directly to solve this problem than OpenLayers.
Outside of OpenLayers specifically, I've done this by loading in
alternate TileLayers using the Google API (via Mapstraction). You just
need to get the Tile template URL and lower opacity. It's definitely
not a terrific solution, but workable.
It seems like OL could potentially do this as well?
Andrew
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