[OpenLayers-Users] Using British OS National Grid-based WMS in openlayers... how?

Nick Whitelegg nick at hogweed.org
Wed Nov 1 17:11:02 EST 2006


> Seems like you're looking for the information in:
> http://openlayers.org/pipermail/users/2006-October/000067.html
>
> in other words, your map should be constructed with an options array:
>
> {
>     maxExtent: new OpenLayers.Bounds(0,0,500000,600000),
>     maxResolution: 'auto',
>     units: 'meters'
> }
>
> maxResolution 'auto' can be changed to any reasonable value:
> reasonable is typically 'width of maximum extent in units of the map
> divided by the width of the div in which it is being displayed'.
> Setting this to a fixed value allows you to cache the results for
> different browser windows, which maxResolution 'auto' does not allow.

OK thanks.

Result is at http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/openpaths/ (tested firefox 1.5 
only)

Nick



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