Odd Google Streets/Physical problem in Neatline

Hello there,

I've been running into a rather strange problem in Neatline, running Neatline 2.5.0 and Omeka 2.3.1. Whenever Google Streets or Google Physical is used as the default spatial layer, the tiles don't show up. Any points or polygons are displayed against a white background, and I don't even see any errors in the Chrome console.

What's odd is that if another layer is the default, and either the Google Hybrid or Google Satellite layers are present, Google Streets and Google Physical display just fine when selected. The problem layers still won't show up if they're the default, but if another layer is selected and then a problem layer is selected, they work fine.

The instances of Omeka that I'm running are being used for classes that are still in session, so I've spun up a new instance on the same server to demonstrate the issue here: http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/omeka_forums/neatline_error/neatline. There are three neatline exhibits, one where Google Streets is included and doesn't work at all (streets nodisplay), one where streets works fine when selected (streets working), and one where streets doesn't display initally, but will display when re-selected (streets default).

This topic here (http://omeka.org/forums/topic/neatline-newbie-google-maps-dont-display) sounds similar to what I'm experiencing, but didn't go anywhere. If anyone's run into this before, especially if you've fixed it, I'd love to hear about it.

-Jeremy

Hi,

Could you make these exhibits public? Google has been changing around their API and this issue (https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/issues/1450) may have crept back in.

In the mean time, can you use an alternate base layer? If you need something extra, you can use https://github.com/waynegraham/neatline_basemaps in your theme to add ESRI (and a lot of others) to Neatline.

Hi,

Thanks for the quick response! Sorry I neglected to make those exhibits public, they are now.

Different base layers are being used now, I'd just like to have Google Streets available since I know my users are familiar with it, and are likely to want to use it.

I'll be trying out your collection of basemaps, though, thanks for posting it!

-Jeremy