Opacity of vector data incorrectly changes with basemap opacity slider for Google Basemaps

[MassGIS]

Emily Huntley reports and Aleda confirms: When I use the basemap opacity slider with any of the four Google basemaps, the opacity of the active data layers also changes. I'm using Chrome v 43, but I also found this to happen in IE 11, Firefox 39, and Safari 5.1.7.

[MassGIS]

Confirmed still a problem by Aleda 11/12/2015 in FF 42.0, IE 11.0, Chrome 46.0. Was not able to test Safari on Mac.

[cgalvarino]

I've got bad news for you. This is a bug that happened when we moved from 2.12.x to 2.13.1.

• See last comment here, Rework Google layer openlayers/ol2#484.
• And another cry in the wilderness here, http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/69637/google-base-layer-opacity-change-in-openlayers-2-13.

See what life is like in OLIVER when we roll back to 2.12 (which I am NOT suggesting we do). Opacity works.

I think we should mark this as won't-fix becuase OL 2.x is really outdated and any work I would be doing to try and patch this would probably be wasted effort since OLIVER needs an upgrade across the board.

[MassGIS]

What if we mark it "wont' fix" in the Google spreadsheet, but keep the Issue open here, in case we someday go to OpenLayers 3 and it works? Then we could mark it closed then.

[cgalvarino]

Sounds good.