Min/max zoom level in OpenLayers

Question

I'm using OpenLayers to display a map in a web page. I am using tiles from CloudMade, but the same issues occur with the Mapnik tiles from OpenStreetMap.

I'm trying to restrict the map so that the user cannot zoom all the way out to world view -- I want them to stay at roughly a city level zoom at minimum.

I have tried using the minZoomLevel / maxZoomLevel / numZoomLevels properties; only the maxZoomLevel and numZoomLevels properties seem to work, whereas the minZoomLevel property seems to be completely ignored.

Is there another way to accomplish this?

Answer 1

I ended up with this solution as i could not figure out how to use zoomOffset in my setup.

        map.getNumZoomLevels = function(){
            return (options.maxzoom-options.minzoom+1);
        };

        map.isValidZoomLevel = function(zoomLevel) {
            var valid = ( (zoomLevel != null) &&
                (zoomLevel >= options.minzoom) &&
                (zoomLevel <= options.maxzoom) );
            if(!valid && map.getZoom() == 0){
                map.zoomTo(options.maxzoom - (options.maxzoom - options.minzoom)/2);

            }
            return valid;
        }

Answer 2

I found the simplest way to restrict the maxZoom levels for a XYZ layer was to override the getNumZoomLevels method:

map.getNumZoomLevels = function(){
        return 10;
        };

This pevents zooming beyond level 10 and also draws the zoomBar control correctly. This and a combination of the zoomOffset option should allow you to easily control min/max zoom without having to mess around with resolutions or subclasses.

Answer 3

You could override the isValidZoomLevel function. Something like this (not tested):

OpenLayers.Map.isValidZoomLevel = function(zoomLevel) {
   return ( (zoomLevel != null) &&
      (zoomLevel >= 2) && // set min level here, could read from property
      (zoomLevel < this.getNumZoomLevels()) );
}

EDIT

Or you would need to override the available resolutions, see the example here: http://dev.openlayers.org/examples/zoomLevels.html

Answer 4

Defining resolutions doesn't solve the problem (even in v2.1) - I didn't find any pernament fix for this, so I made my own zoombar in JS - that's what I would recommend to anyone who encounters issues with zoombar using custom tiles.

Answer 5

I tried something like this and it works for me:

map.newMoveTo = map.moveTo;
map.moveTo = function(lonlat,zoom,options){
    return(zoom>=maxZoom && zoom<=minZoom)?map.newMoveTo(lonlat,zoom,options):false;
};

Answer 6

Now i use this in the "View":

view: new ol.View({
    center: ol.proj.transform([-3.707524, 40.485644], 'EPSG:4326',EPSG:3857'),
    zoom: 15,
    maxZoom: 17,
    minZoom: 6
}),

And it works fine