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d3.geo.tile limiting zoomable map to make street view zoom scale smaller

I've been following this D3 implementation of a zoomable map tiles and this example to create a street view map of paths of a certain city. I have loaded the map but I keep running into issues with adding svg paths such as:
most paths disappearing in some computed stroke-widths (separate SO post here)
mouseover & mouseout events are not triggered anymore while zoomed in (possibly due to stroke-widths as well)
These happens usually if the paths are to short ie a street-to-street path. But when I create a path from one country to another, it works. However, this is not what I need.
Reading around, I think the problem is that zooming in into a street view level sets the scale too large for the dynamically adjusting svg elements (ex. 4.47035e-08 stroke width) since the view starts at a world view level. Is there a way to limit the initial view to a country/city level so that the scale would not be as large?
Or is there another way to achieve this? Viewport? Viewbox? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Mapbox not drawing all tiles, when inside a Telerik splitter

We have a legacy website from which the powers-that-be have decided we need to remove all of our Google maps, replacing them with maps provided by MapBox. So I'm in the middle of a crash project to swap out the old for the new.
And here's my problem: the old site is written in ASP.NET, making heavy use of Telerik's controls. In this page we have a RadSplitter, and a Google map being drawn in a RadPane.
Swapping out the Google map with the MapBox map was simple enough, except that the MapBox map isn't rendering correctly. Only the tiles along the left edge of the pane are drawing. But - when I resize the browser window, the rest of the tiles draw.
The div is defined with position: absolute, and top, bottom, right, and left set to 0. Which Google maps worked with.
My guess is that Telerik is doing something that is confusing the MapBox rendering code about the actual size of the div. And that when the window resizes, MapBox re-evaluates things, and gets it right.
I've been playing around with this for a couple of hours now, and getting nowhere:
I've tried triggering a resize event in code, and the tiles didn't draw.
I've tried placing the map in a fixed-size div, inside the pane, and the map drew to the edges, and then the div sat inside the pane with scrollbars, which confirms, to me, that I'm dealing with a sizing issue, but I can't have the scrollbars, so
I've tried setting the width and height of the div to the size of the pane, in code, and that didn't trigger the map to draw the missing panes.
I'm running out of ideas.
Is there some event or function on the MapBox renderer that will cause it to redraw the way it does when the browser resizes?

Turns out the answer was pretty simple:
map.invalidateSize();
Edited - a few days layer
Turns out that only works in IE. In Chrome, invalidateSize() doesn't cause the map to properly resize itself.

so the map is being drawn in a pseudo-frame, which is probably throwing off the calculations for what's "visible"...
do you have a way of sharing the actual output HTML? like jsfiddle?
are there any console errors? maybe it's something as simple as you've met your quota for the map tile server...
try a different tile server?

Google Maps - Changing the pane order of tile overlays?

A continuation of my previous question: How to change the layering of KML and Tile Overlays in Google Maps?
I am currently rewriting some of the code regarding the buttons which enable and disable tile overlays using arrays. In doing so, I'm trying to combine all of the button's individual functions into a single function, but since I have two methods of rendering the overlays, I was hoping to try and simply focus on only one method. The first uses "overlayMapTypes":
map.overlayMapTypes.insertAt(0, beloitMapType);
The second, using a script provided in my previous question:
this.getPanes().overlayShadow.appendChild(this.settings.div_);
The former method is my original approach; however, since I use polygons on the Satellite view I needed a way to place icon/name overlays above the colored polygons. To achieve this, I sought something akin to the latter method where certain overlays could be placed onto a pane higher than the polygons and thus appear above them.
However, in the time between my previous question and now, as well as through some of my own research, I've come to realize that the latter method, rather than placing the tiles into their places, estimates the location of the tile and places it as an image overlay. As a result, a part of my accessibility layer which colors in inaccessible paths had been misaligned by a pixel or two, or my building name overlay currently has names on the border of two tiles which have a sharp line through them as those two tiles overlap slightly. In addition, these two issues come and go each time the map is loaded with each tile being placed on the map with a variance of 1-2 pixels in any direction.
Thus, I would very much prefer to use the former method with overlayMapTypes, which is more reliable and accurate, on all of the overlays, but I also need a way to bring some of these overlays higher than the "overlayLayer" pane and above the polygons. Is this possible and, if so, how could it be done?
Addition: I have an additional need to try and find a method to achieve the reassignment of panes with the overlayMapType method: the script I'm using to achieve this doesn't appear to work in IE7/8. I'm going to investigate this angle myself, but I'd still prefer to drop the script entirely if possible.

Well, I've hit upon a possible solution and, for the sake of sharing it, allow me to explain:
Polygons do not necessarily need to be visible to still have click and hover events.
Since the polygons are used to color the buildings and poi in Satellite view, such a visual component could easily be done by an overlay.
Thus, a possible solution is to have all polygons invisible and simply use them for click and hover events. Likewise, a second overlay, or a modification of an existing one, would replace the polygon's original visual component. Since this visual component is now an overlay like everything else, it can be easily layered with any other overlay using the "MapType" method.
(This however doesn't answer the question; namely, can tile overlays and polygons be layered only with the MapType method? I would still like to know that, but in the event that there is no answer, this hopefully is a possible alternative.)

Fill google maps viewport with single tile

Basically what I am trying to do is find a way to load ONLY one image/tile which will fill the viewport and not have any surrounding tiles loaded. It appears this is the methodology the good folks at Weather Underground are doing w/their Wundermap.
I've tried digging through their code but to no avail. I tried simply using larger tiles - larger than the actual viewport - but this has several adverse side effects. There was a similar question asked in WMS as a single tile image in Google Maps v3 but that was more about just using larger tiles than using a single tile.
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE:
Here is a link to a page/map on their site that loads a single tile/image that spans the entire viewport:
http://wxug.us/o4ia
If you have the Net tab open in firebug you can see that there is a single tile request. Also, if you keep it open and pan the map - while keeping the mouse down - the data does not fill in until you release the mouse. For all the tiled maps I have seen, as soon as you pan, it starts filling in new tiles.

They're using a custom overlay. You'll need to set up a server-side way of serving out your own image overlays to display on Google Maps, based on the viewport (presuming you want to serve 1 image that displays over the entire viewport). http://goo.gl/zgEKB

Google Map Algorithm (Ajax, Tiles, etc)

I'm working on an app that displays a large image just about the same way as Google Maps. As the user drags the map, more images are loaded so that when a new part of the map is visible, the corresponding images are already in place.
By the way, this is a Javascript project.
I'm thinking of representing each tile as a square div with the image loaded as a background image.
My question: how exactly can I calculate what divs are showing, and when the tiles are moved, how do I tell when a new row of divs have become visible?
Thanks!

About calculating what divs are showing: learn the algorithm for intersecting two rectangles (the stackoverflow question Algorithm to detect intersection of two rectangles? is a good starting point). With that, the divs that are showing are the ones whose intersection with the "view window" is non-empty.
About telling when a new row of divs have become visible: you will probably need a updateInterface() method anyway. Use this method to keep track of the divs showing, and when divs that weren't showing before enter the view window, fire a event handler of sorts.
About implementation: you should probably have the view window be itself a div with overflow: hidden and position: relative. Having a relative position attribute in CSS means that a child with absolute position top 0, left 0 will be at the top-left edge of the container (the view area, in your case).
About efficiency: depending on how fast your "determine which divs are showing" algorithm ends up being, you can try handling the intersection detection only when the user stops dragging, not on the mouse move. You should also preload the areas immediately around your current view window, so that if the user doesn't drag too far away, they will already be loaded.
Some further reference:
Tile5: Tiling Interfaces
gTile: Javascript tile based game engine
Experiments in rendering a Tiled Map in javascript/html…

There's no reason to implement this yourself, really, unless it's just a fun project. There are several open source libraries that handle online mapping.
To answer your question, you need to have an orthophoto-type image (an image aligned with the coordinate space) and then a mapping from pixel coordinates (i.e. the screen) to world coordinates. If it's not map images, just arbitrary large images then, again, you need to create a mapping between the pixel coordinates of the source image at various zoom levels and the view-port's coordinates.
If you read Google Map's SDK documentation you will see explanations of these terms. It's also a good idea to explore one of the aforementioned existing libraries, read its documentation and see how it's done.
But, again, if this is real work, don't implement it yourself. There's no reason to.