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malonso
malonso

Reputation: 2295

Fill google maps viewport with single tile

Basically what I am trying to do is find a way to load ONLY one image/tile which will fill the viewport and not have any surrounding tiles loaded. It appears this is the methodology the good folks at Weather Underground are doing w/their Wundermap.

I've tried digging through their code but to no avail. I tried simply using larger tiles - larger than the actual viewport - but this has several adverse side effects. There was a similar question asked in WMS as a single tile image in Google Maps v3 but that was more about just using larger tiles than using a single tile.

Thanks in advance.

UPDATE:

Here is a link to a page/map on their site that loads a single tile/image that spans the entire viewport:

http://wxug.us/o4ia

If you have the Net tab open in firebug you can see that there is a single tile request. Also, if you keep it open and pan the map - while keeping the mouse down - the data does not fill in until you release the mouse. For all the tiled maps I have seen, as soon as you pan, it starts filling in new tiles.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 834

Answers (1)

andresf
andresf

Reputation: 2061

They're using a custom overlay. You'll need to set up a server-side way of serving out your own image overlays to display on Google Maps, based on the viewport (presuming you want to serve 1 image that displays over the entire viewport). http://goo.gl/zgEKB

Upvotes: 1

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