Thank you very much to all for the reply. I will try it.


On Jan 28, 7:55 am, bratliff <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 28, 9:05 am, qFox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > What you're looking at is a custom tile layer. Google requests images
> > as tiles from your server and displays them over their own maptiles.
> > It is then up to your server to actually create those images properly
> > to display whatever you like. When you go to the 'radar' example you
> > can clearly see the tiles being loaded, one square at a time, because
> > the "radar" server is much slower than google's server. The tiles are
> > created by the server somehow to reflect the weather conditions on
> > those area's.
>
> > Setting up a custom tile layer is not very hard on the client side
> > (but still a bit advanced) and is quite some work on the server side,
> > depending on what you're trying to accomplish.
>
> > Have a look at the GTileLayerOverlay examples.
>
> Using tiles for time sensitive images runs the risk of adjacent tiles
> from different observation times.  Also, obtaining tiles through a
> third party (Iowa State) adds delay & reduces reliability.
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