[Users] Add Bing Maps as baselayer

[Arnaud Vandecasteele]

Ohhh, Great Job !

Arnaud

2009/12/10 Cédric Moullet <cedric.moullet at camptocamp.com>

> Hi,
> I tried to find a solution for this problem and I have found... a
> wrokaround. But, maybe, this will help to find a solution ;-)
>
> Have a look at:
> http://dev.geoext.org/sandbox/cmoullet/ux/Bing/examples/BingExample.html
> The problem comes from the loadMapObject function of
> http://trac.openlayers.org/browser/trunk/openlayers/lib/OpenLayers/Layer/VirtualEarth.js#L103
> When this function is called, the map size is 1x1. So,in order to
> workaround that in the example, I firstly created  the mappanel with an
> empty map and then added the VE layers in the map. Seems to work, but any
> more elegant solution is welcome,
> Cédric
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Arnaud Vandecasteele <arnaud.sig at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I've tried also to create a slippy GeoExt map with bing as layer. But I
>> don't think it's about the resize of the map. Instead, if I look instead the
>> yellow square with firebug I've got a message which told that :
>> > The VE Layer was unable to load correctly. To get rid of this message,
>> select a new BaseLayer in the layer switcher in the upper-right corner. Most
>> likely, this is because the VirtualEarth library script was not correctly
>> included. Developers: For help getting this working correctly,
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Arnaud
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Fabien <fabien.goblet at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for the reply. One day, maybe.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Fabien.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Andreas Hocevar <ahocevar at opengeo.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Fabien wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I developped a small application in GeoExt to compare baselayers -
>>>>> Google vs Yahoo vs OSM :
>>>>> http://geotribu.net/applications/baselayers/index.html
>>>>> I try to add the bing maps (as baselayer) in a mappanel, but without
>>>>> success.
>>>>> I use the same method as for google layer but I always have my map in
>>>>> blue with a little piece of yellow in the top left of the map.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems that the same problem as following :
>>>>> http://www.mapfish.org/pipermail/users/2009-August/001690.html
>>>>> But I haven't found any solutions to solve the problem.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I can confirm that this is the same problem. I think the reason is that
>>>> Bing doesn't like to be resized in early stage of loading it's API, and the
>>>> way a map is created in a GeoExt MapPanel (i.e. without an existing
>>>> container) makes OpenLayers create a small map first (I guess that's the
>>>> small yellow rectangle), which will be resized as soon as the container
>>>> exists. We had similar issues with the Google Layer, but most of these were
>>>> resolved in OpenLayers.
>>>>
>>>> Having said that, there is no solution yet, and I am not aware of
>>>> someone working on it.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Andreas.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Fabien Goblet.
>>>>>
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