I've made some minor changes to your code. In fact I've added a few properties to your layer: isBaseLayer: true, wrapDateLine: true, maxExtent: new OpenLayers.Bounds(-180, -180, 180, 120) And **[here][1]**'s the whole code for you, to easily test it. Just unzip the file, extract the *scrobbler.html* file and double click it. Just zoom out and move the map, as you like. [1]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13060205/Stackexchange/Skobbler/skobbler.zip