Nianwei,

How exactly does the GroundOverlay approximate the image for the
coordinate system that GMaps uses? Unfortunately, unless I see source
or an
example, I'm not well versed on different coordinate systems so I
can't really build
something on my own.

Thanks.

On Oct 7, 10:37 am, Nianwei Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
> The noaa image is in WGS84 coordinate system, by nature, it can not be
> overlay on top of Google base map accurately without a re-projection
> of the image itself.
>
> If re-projecting the image is not an option,  you need to approximate
> the overlay with a technique that used for image sprites, which is
> what groundoverlay does. You break up the image vertically into small
> pieces, and apply projection to those individual slices as the
> background of a div, not a img element.
>
> if you want use groundoverlay, you can set the style of the
> "pane.overlayLayer" with some sort of transparent, use a fake overlay
> to get access to it. Downside is that all overlays will have same
> opacity.
>
> or you can fire an enhancement request via issue tracker and see what
> happens.
>
> On Oct 7, 9:23 am, Josh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > The primary reason I'm not using GroundOverlay is because it doesn't
> > allow you to set the opacity of the image. Do you guys know of any way
> > to do this? Because then my need for a custom class will be null and
> > void.

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