Thanks Mike, I'll give this a try.  However, it seems like an even
simpler way of doing this might be to use the plain map view, where
the streets are in solid white/yellow/orange(ish) colors.

On Sep 9, 9:41 am, Mike Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> menopsis wrote
>
> >Rossko mentions "its an element in the hybrid layer of the api".  This
> >suggests that there is something in the api that I could potentially
> >use, but it is not clear to me how to use it.
>
> You can build a custom MapType with a single GTileLayer that's set equal
> to the second element of G_HYBRID_MAP.getTileLayers
>
> Something like this (untested)
>
> MyMapType=new GMapType([G_HYBRID_MAP.getTileLayers[1]], new
> GMercatorProjection(32), "Street Mask");
>
> Don't attempt to create your own GTileLayer by pointing at the tiles
> directly. It will work for a while, but the tile URLs change whenever
> there's a new version of the tileset.
>
> --
> Mike Williams

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