Google Maps API styled maps in Openlayers

Hey @webcultist. There's no way to do this with just configuration in this module. And it doesn't look like there's too much info out there from people who might be doing this. here is the best I found:

http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/5964/how-to-apply-custom-google-m...

Overall, you should be able to do this, as you have access to the Google Maps object from with OpenLayers. So, in theory with some code, you could make a Layer Type for this module to handle it.

Let me know if you have anymore questions and feel free to re-open.

@webcultist or @zzolo do either of you have additional information/proof of concept/progress with this? I would also like to create styled maps.

I've created a behavior (attached as a module) that allows styling the default google map

You can choose to fill in settings for feature type 'All', or add a JSON string with custom styles.

Is this something that can be added to openlayers module, or should it live in contrib on it's own?

Attached screenshots showing the behavior settings

If you choose settings mode 'Feature Type: all'
You can provide values for Visibility, Invert Lightness, Hue, Lightness, Saturation, Gamma
These settings will be used for all styling features.

If you use settings mode 'specific JSON string',
you can add a json string containing all the specific settings for feature types.
This JSON string needs to be valid json, if not the settings supplied for 'Feature Type: all' will be used to style the map.

the style map wizard does not return valid JSON.

e.g.

[
  {
    stylers: [
      { saturation: -90 },
      { lightness: 32 }
    ]
  }
]

Should use quotes:

[
  {
    "stylers": [
      { "saturation": -90 },
      { "lightness": 32 }
    ]
  }
]

FANTASTIC! Thank you so much for putting this together and sharing it with the community.

This is absolutely awesome and so easy to use, I definitely think this should be commited to the openlayers module!

@svdhout this could easily be converted to a patch to the openlayers module by using the existing ctools plugin system, I would do it myself but the js files confuse me a bit.

For the life of me I can't understand how to get a view display LOCATION content type nodes on a google map using this behaviour

thank you for any help on this

I think in this case is to create a module for this behavior.

I'm gonna close this, feel free to reopen it.

If anyone is ever looking for this functionality I have been using the module @svdhout provided extensively in a live site so I decided to promote it to a full project at http://drupal.org/project/openlayers_stylemaps

Wow, great!!! Thanks a lot! :-)

please can anybody post example uri of that screenshot? clicking in openlayers + openlayers_stylemaps and cant find that setting.

oh, finally.
/admin/structure/openlayers/maps/list/default/edit or /admin/structure/openlayers/maps/add
Vertical tabs click "Behaviors" -> find Google Stylemap Overlay.