[OpenLayers-Users] Map wrapping?

[Ken Stuart]

Hi again,

With respect to the questions posed below: we intend to plot positions
and movements of various military forces in World War II in the South
Pacific.

The results might include vectors extending across the dateline, as
well as placing custom point icons that overlie the dateline. Further,
it's likely that we'd want to incorporate drag-boxes for zooming or
annotations that cross it as well.

Are the dateline issues likely to interfere with those needs? Are they
being worked on?

-Ken



>  1. If you need to wrap the date line, you're probably using the wrong
>  projection.
>
>  2. There is some limited support in OpenLayers for wrapping the display
>  of tiles across the dateline.
>
> http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/wrapDateLine.html
>
>  3. This support is limited if you want to do things other than display
>  tiles. For example, drawing vectors across the dateline raises issues. A
>  more specific description of what you want to do might help: if it's
>  just about displaying map tiles, you're probably in reasonably okay
>  shape so long as you have a sane number of layers.
>
>  Regards,
>  --
>  Christopher Schmidt
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