[OpenLayers-Users] Measuring tool

[Mike Quentel]

Here is a link to tips for distance measure tool that might help: 

http://openlayers.org/pipermail/users/2007-May/001682.html

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From: users-bounces at openlayers.org [mailto:users-bounces at openlayers.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Schmidt
Sent: Wednesday, 19 March 2008 07:03
To: users at openlayers.org
Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Measuring tool

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 08:44:42AM +0100, Gérald Quintana wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Once I saw an example of Control to measure the length of a path 
> (rubber), but I can't find it anymore. Where is it?
> 
> I managed to do my own using the DrawFeature control and the
> Curve.getLength() method but I miss the conversion factor to get the 
> distance in meters or kilometers, how can I do it?

No measurement tool in OpenLayers has ever done this. Hoever, the OpenLayers.Util.distVincenty function might help you.

Regards,
--
Christopher Schmidt
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