Thanks you for your response.
1. True, but conventional wisdom does me no good when I need to be
able to see the roads more prominently than the data I'm overlaying.
Its just a matter of visual priority and clarity.
2. No. I'm only speaking of the png tiles.
3. True, this map is similar to what I have produced. However, as you
can see, the streets and labels become more difficult to distinguish
than they would with the roads overlayed on top of the map.
On Nov 24, 10:07 pm, marcelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. Why are you trying to do things in reverse? Conventional wisdom is
> that custom layers go above the Google layers.
>
> 2. There is a gray background that is set by the api to the container
> DIV. Is that what you're thinking of?
> You can change that background, after you setCenter(), with
> document.getElementById('map_canvas').style.background = '#ffffff';
> replacing 'map_canvas' for the correct ID of your DIV.
>
> 3. Here's a heatmap that looks perfectly normal to me, and you can
> adjust the opacity of either layer:http://maps.forum.nu/gm_heatmap.html
>
> --
> Marcelo -http://maps.forum.nu
> --
>
> On Nov 24, 11:18 pm, TheChad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Often I would like to project the google map image png tiles on top of
> > my image layer for the map features to be clearly visible over my
> > layer. Currently putting the map layer on top with dhtml transparency
> > results in only partial success. The problem still remains that the
> > grey areas on the png tiles restrict too much of the image below.
> > This would be possible if the google map pngs were transparent (with a
> > png alpha layer) where they are normally grey. I presume this could
> > be accomplished with only little change in the api, as one could
> > assign a background color to the google map png layer (the same grey)
> > and then include a hook in the api to change the color or to remove it
> > entirely. This would also produce afeatureof being able to change
> > the map ground color.
> > With these features, when one overlays image data (a heat map for
> > example) with the transparent map tiles, the map layer will be clearly
> > visible over the heat map.
>
> > If this post is not clear, has been incorrectly placed, or if there
> > are comment/questions, please let me know.
> > Thanks
>
> > The Chad
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