My plan is to serve image overlay tiles from a geoserver backed by a postgresql database with postGIS. Last week I installed postGIS and setup a new database with the postGIS functions. I created a table to import a shapefile w/ supporting files. (I should post some howto details on all that...)
So to get a basic v3 maps running with image tile overlays, the key docs are at: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/v3/overlays.html#ImageMapTypes
You can follow the example there first, and get a tiled image overlay working, showing a traffic overlay from google's server. The "tile server" URL format is formed by a function, e.g.
1: function(coord, zoom) {2: return "http://mt3.google.com/mapstt?" +3: "zoom=" + zoom + "&x=" + coord.x +4: "&y=" + coord.y + "&client=google";&client=google";5: }
Now, back to the GeoServer side of things. The key thing I needed to know was what the format of the URL should be to get a raster tile image out of the GeoWebCache. The GeoWebCache docs show the following, which is aimed at v2 google maps API. (From http://geowebcache.org/docs/1.2.0/services/gmaps.html)
http://localhost:8080/geowebcache/service/gmaps?layers=layer-name&zoom={Z}&x={X}&y={Y}&format=image/pngTo be sure, when I installed GeoServer 2.0.1, I was under the impression that it included GeoWebCache. I could confirm when I browse to the following URL and see a GeoWebCache page.
In this screen shot you can see my indiana counties shapefile that I had imported into a postGIS table. The "spelling" of that data layer will be used in the URL that follows.
So, given the GeoWebCache docs above, and the fact that I had a different base URL, I construed that the proper URL to fetch a google maps tile would perhaps be:
Putting this URL into my web browser, I was served a single 256x256 PNG tile as desired. Success.
So below is my example of hooking up v3 google maps API to GeoWebCache tile server. This presumes you have a corresponding div tag in your html file, e.g.,
1: <div id="map_canvas" style="border: 1px #333 solid; height: 375px; width: 500px;"></div>
And the code:
1: function initialize() {2: var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(39.8895, -86.1575); // Indiana3: var myOptions = {4: zoom: 6,5: center: latlng,6: mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP7: };8: var indianaCountiesOptions = {9: getTileUrl: function(coord, zoom) {10: return "http://myserver:8080/geoserver/gwc/service/gmaps?layers=indiana:indiana_counties&" +11: "zoom=" + zoom + "&x=" + coord.x + "&y=" + coord.y + "&format=image/png";12: },13: tileSize: new google.maps.Size(256, 256),14: isPng: true,15: opacity: 0.2516: };17:18: var customMapType = new google.maps.ImageMapType(indianaCountiesOptions);19: var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), myOptions);20: map.overlayMapTypes.insertAt(0, customMapType);21: }
Hi, thanks for a nice tutorial.
ReplyDeleteI think the URL for the google overlay documentation has been moved from: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/v3/overlays.html#ImageMapTypes
to
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/maptypes.html#CustomMapTypes
Cheers
-Peter
Thanks for the updated documentation link Peter.
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Hi Broc,
ReplyDeleteI need help in using Mapinfo TAB file into Google Map API V3 application.This application is developed in C#.
Using your example I tried but I could not succeeded.
Thanks
MSharma,
ReplyDeleteThe trick is to get your geo data into a tile server. Then pulling the tiles into a google maps overlay is fairly straight forward.
In my case, I used a PostgresQL database (with postGIS extensions) to hold shapefile data, and then used GeoServer to serve the tiles.
If you used these specific tools you would convert your TAB format files into shapefiles.
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