[OpenLayers-Users] Get lat/lon from pixel coordinates via a webservice?

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Fri Aug 22 17:54:44 EDT 2008


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:43:20PM +0200, Kaspar Fischer wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> Is there a way to convert the x/y-coodinates, measured from the top-
> left corner of a map centered at a fixed position and zoom level, to
> lat/long-coordinates without running on a browser? 

It's all planar math. "Zoom Levels" have no real meaning: what you care
about is resolution. But none of this appears to be related to
OpenLayers: Doing planar math of an image is outside the realm of this
mailing list (in my estimation).  

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta



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