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-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
-    <head>
-    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;" />
-    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
-        <title>OpenLayers Base Layers Example</title>
-        
-        <link rel="stylesheet" href="../theme/default/style.css" type="text/css" />
-        <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />
-        <style type="text/css">
-            #controls
-            {
-                width: 512px;
-            }
-        </style>
-
-        <!-- this gmaps key generated for http://openlayers.org/dev/ -->
-        <script src='http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&amp;v=2&amp;key=ABQIAAAA9XNhd8q0UdwNC7YSO4YZghSPUCi5aRYVveCcVYxzezM4iaj_gxQ9t-UajFL70jfcpquH5l1IJ-Zyyw'></script>
-        <!-- Localhost key -->
-        <!-- <script src='http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&amp;v=2&amp;key=ABQIAAAAjpkAC9ePGem0lIq5XcMiuhT2yXp_ZAY8_ufC3CFXhHIE1NvwkxTS6gjckBmeABOGXIUiOiZObZESPg'></script>-->
-        <!-- CLEANUP: the URL below doesn't work anymore -->
-        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://clients.multimap.com/API/maps/1.1/metacarta_04"></script>
-        <script src='http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.1'></script>
-        <script src="http://api.maps.yahoo.com/ajaxymap?v=3.0&appid=euzuro-openlayers"></script>
-        <script src="../lib/OpenLayers.js"></script>
-        <script type="text/javascript">
-            var lon = 5;
-            var lat = 40;
-            var zoom = 5;
-            var map, markers;
-            var barcelona = new OpenLayers.LonLat(2.13134765625,
-                                                  41.37062534198901);
-            var madrid = new OpenLayers.LonLat(-3.6968994140625,
-                                              40.428314208984375);
-
-            function init(){
-                map = new OpenLayers.Map( 'map' );
-
-                var wms = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS( "OpenLayers WMS",
-                          "http://vmap0.tiles.osgeo.org/wms/vmap0",
-                          {layers: 'basic'} );
-                var google = new OpenLayers.Layer.Google( "Google Hybrid" , {type: G_HYBRID_MAP });
-                var ve = new OpenLayers.Layer.VirtualEarth( "VE");
-                var yahoo = new OpenLayers.Layer.Yahoo( "Yahoo");
-                var mm = new OpenLayers.Layer.MultiMap( "MultiMap");
-
-
-                map.addLayers([wms, google, ve, yahoo, mm]);
-
-                markers = new OpenLayers.Layer.Markers("markers");
-                map.addLayer(markers);
-
-                map.setCenter(new OpenLayers.LonLat(lon, lat), zoom);
-                map.addControl( new OpenLayers.Control.LayerSwitcher() );
-                map.addControl( new OpenLayers.Control.MousePosition() );
-
-            }
-
-            function add() {
-                var url = 'http://www.openlayers.org/dev/img/marker.png';
-                var sz = new OpenLayers.Size(21, 25);
-                var calculateOffset = function(size) {
-                                    return new OpenLayers.Pixel(-(size.w/2), -size.h);
-                                 };
-                var icon = new OpenLayers.Icon(url, sz, null, calculateOffset);
-                marker = new OpenLayers.Marker(barcelona, icon);
-                markers.addMarker(marker);
-
-                marker = new OpenLayers.Marker(madrid, icon.clone());
-                markers.addMarker(marker);
-
-            }
-
-            function remove() {
-                markers.removeMarker(marker);
-            }
-
-        </script>
-    </head>
-    <body onload="init()">
-        <h1 id="title">Base Layers Example</h1>
-
-        <div id="tags">
-            Google, Yahoo, Virtual Earth, Bing, MultiMap, cleanup
-        </div>
-
-        <p id="shortdesc">
-           This example shows the use base layers from multiple commercial map image providers.
-        </p>
-
-        <div id="controls">
-            <div id="map" class="smallmap"></div>
-
-            <div style="background-color:green" onclick="add()"> click to add a marker to the map</div>
-            <div style="background-color:red" onclick="remove()"> click to remove the marker from the map</div>
-        </div>
-        
-        <div id="docs">
-       </div>
-    </body>
-</html>
