You might want to look at : getZoomForExtent<br><br><a href="http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.8/doc/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Map-js.html#OpenLayers.Map.getZoomForExtent">http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.8/doc/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Map-js.html#OpenLayers.Map.getZoomForExtent</a><br>
<br>and zoomToExtent<br><br><a href="http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.8/doc/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Map-js.html#OpenLayers.Map.zoomToExtent">http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.8/doc/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Map-js.html#OpenLayers.Map.zoomToExtent</a><br>
<br>Lennox<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:01 PM, MostlyBaldEagle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MostlyBaldEagle@shaw.ca">MostlyBaldEagle@shaw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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I need to figure out what zoom level to use to be able to fully see a<br>
rectangular area bound by max latitude + longitude and min latitude +<br>
longitude.<br>
<br>
Anybody ever done this? Any hints would be appreciated<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
Olaf<br>
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