[OpenLayers-Users] Congrats and query? Using spherical Mercator -- can I get at the WGS84 geographic values?

[Lance Dyas]

Thank you that hits the spot, it also makes me feel a little sheepish .. 
a moments clear
thinking and I should have found it myself.

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 06:59:11PM -0500, Lance Dyas wrote:
>   
>> Most of the geocoding services and search facilities on the web are in  
>> bad old EPSG:4326
>> I am using Spherical Mercator version of Google Maps layer (in part 
>> because it is just more
>> correct ) but would like to get at the coords in geographic projection...
>>     
>
> http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Layer/SphericalMercator-js.html#OpenLayers.Layer.SphericalMercator.forwardMercator
> http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Layer/SphericalMercator-js.html#OpenLayers.Layer.SphericalMercator.inverseMercator
>
> Note that these are *not* API methods at the moment -- in the future, I
> expect OpenLayers will have reprojection code in it or alongside it that
> we encourage people to use, 
always include those examples especially if that is the route taken .. 
the OpenLayers example set is great.
> but at the moment, these functions will do
> what you need to take in lon/lat and convert to spherical mercator or
> the other direction. 

Yup quickie fix to get the job done.