[OpenLayers-Users] SphericalMercator and SRS aliases epsg:900913, epsg:3857, epsg:3785, epsg:102113

[Andreas Hocevar]

Please have a look at http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2756 and provide feedback.

Regards,
Andreas.

On Jul 26, 2010, at 14:13 , Arnd Wippermann wrote:

> Hi Anne,
> 
> I agree, something like 'projectionAlias' is better to understand than
> projection.
> 
> Arnd
> 
> 
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> Von: users-bounces at openlayers.org [mailto:users-bounces at openlayers.org] Im
> Auftrag von Anne Blankert
> Gesendet: Montag, 26. Juli 2010 00:02
> An: users at openlayers.org
> Betreff: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] SphericalMercator and SRS aliases
> epsg:900913, epsg:3857, epsg:3785, epsg:102113
> 
> 
> Hello Arnd,
> 
> An option named "sphericalmercatoralias" is indeed very specific to
> sphericalmercator.
> Maybe, an option named "projection" is not specific enough. Users could
> think that such an option would somehow magically allow reprojecting the
> overlay projection to the map projection. Things would get mixed up, when
> sending bounding box coordinates using the wrong projection.
> So maybe an option named "projectionalias" would be a better name than
> "sphericalmercatoralias" or "projection"?
> "projectionalias" stresses the fact that the projection itself should not be
> different, just the code that is being used for the projection.
> 
> Anne
> 
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