Hi Richard, I have opened a ticket for this issue:
http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1689#preview If anyone else has seen this issue or has some suggestions, please let us know. Unless a patch miraculously appears, this is going to be a 2.8 issue for now. Thanks for the report! Erik On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Richard Marsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if anyone has seen this, or know of a workaround, but I'm > finding that if I zoom in too far with a Virtual Earth base layer, then > the other layers are not plotted. > > Eg. > > http://www.ecomapcostarica.com/map/map_test_ve.shtml > > ( I've found problems when trying to switch base layers between > MapServer WMS and Virtual Earth. It will switch from VE to MPS > perfectly, but not back again. My solution was to have two pages: one > for each base layer. The above page is the draft version of the VE page) > > The default zoom (also duplicated with the Leaves and Lizards zoom > option) plots at the maximum zoom that works. What you see is a KML > layer, on top of a raster image and a 'stream' vector layer (both from > MapServer WMS). No VE should be visible, but if you pan to the north VE > should be visible. > > In fact we're zoomed in too far and VE shows the "forbidden camera" icon > indicating that sufficiently detailed images are unavailable. This is > to be expected. However if we zoom in one step further (eg. by scrolling > the mouse wheel one click), then OpenLayers appears to 'hang' with the > VE layer and does not show the other layers. > > This is actually quite limiting for this application, because virtually > everything of interest will be plotted in the red KML polygon! > > So does anyone know of a workaround, eg. is it possible to make the VE > base layer automatically appear and disappear when zoomed in very far? > > As an aside, the working non-VE version which uses public outline SHP > data instead, can be seen here: > > http://www.ecomapcostarica.com/map/index.shtml > > We shall be in the field in two weeks time, and hope to update the > map(s) whilst we're out there. Yes Wifi has even reached the rainforest!! > > > Richard > -- > Richard Marsden > Winwaed Software Technology LLC > http://www.winwaed.com > Tools and Add-ins for MapPoint - http://www.mapping-tools.com > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
