[OpenLayers-Users] How to display a specific place ?

[cdobell]

First, make sure that you're adding your google layer to map.  In one of your
examples, you only added the wms layer.

Second, since google maps are EPSG:900913, you'll need to pass it meters
instead of a lon,lat.  Set up a point or bounds you know (lon,lat) and then
transform that point/bounds to the google projection.

// I saw a reference to this lat,lon coordinate: 63.259591,-144.667969

var GEOGRAPHIC_PROJECTION = new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326"); // stnd
LAT,LON via WGS84 datum
var MERCATOR_PROJECTION =   new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:900913"); //
'900913' == 'GOOGLE' projection
var IndiaCenterPointGeographic = new
OpenLayers.LonLat(-144.667969,63.259591); // lon,lat
var IndiaCenterPointMercator =
IndiaCenterPointGeographic.transform(GEOGRAPHIC_PROJECTION,MERCATOR_PROJECTION);
var startZoomLevel = 5;
//....
//set up map and layers...
//....
map.setCenter(IndiaCenterPointMercator,startZoomLevel);

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