This module works great for the official set of Mapbox tiles that you see here: http://tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox - When you add any of those names while creating a new Mapbox Layer with the OpenLayers module, we get the correct set of tiles.

However when you try to create a Mapbox layer using the name of a custom map, that a user has created with TileMill and uploaded to his account for example, the set of tiles are not displayed.

If a user could especify the username of the uploader and the name of the map (I'm guessing the mapbox username is 'hardcoded'), this would be possible right?

Custom Mapbox map example: https://tiles.mapbox.com/ipwa/map/world-vision-peru

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antoniotorres commented

I ran into that issue and it is in fact hardcoded. Here's how I got around it (hack incoming)

open mapbox.layers.inc

add this and customize.

function _mapbox_layers_info() {
  $info = array();
   $info['mapbox_mapname'] = array(
    'name'=> t('Map Name'),
    'description' => t('Map Name'),
    'layername' => 'map-theMapIdHere',
    'minzoom' => 0,
    'maxzoom' => 16
  );

then scroll down and look for 

    $openlayers_layers->data = array(
      'urls' => array(
        0 => 'http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/YOURUSER/',
        1 => 'http://b.tiles.mapbox.com/YOURUSER/',
        2 => 'http://c.tiles.mapbox.com/YOURUSER/',
        3 => 'http://d.tiles.mapbox.com/YOURUSER/',
      ),

and replace, then enable.

Hope this helps you and everyone else that has the same issue.

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antoniotorres commented

Tempted to patch the entire module to expose that stuff through the interface.

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ipwa commented

Tempted to patch the entire module to expose that stuff through the interface.

That would be so so, awesome!!

Thanks for the tip, will try it out.

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ipwa commented
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Adding custom map link

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ipwa commented
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As now seen in the module page (and soon in the docs), it is possible to implement your custom Mapbox tiles as a new XYZ layer for the OL module using some simple instructions.

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ipwa commented
Status: Active » Closed (outdated)