<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I am still having problems understanding scales and spherical mercator. Is it possible to define the map scales so that they are not rediculous numbers. In my app it is not working.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://maps.zgb.de/www/eeg/search.html">http://maps.zgb.de/www/eeg/search.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>var map = new OpenLayers.Map("map",{</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>projection:epsg3857,</div><div> displayProjection: epsg4326,</div><div> units: "m",</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>scales: [1000000, 500000, 100000, 50000, 25000, 10000, 5000, 1000],</div><div><span
class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>maxExtent: new OpenLayers.Bounds(-20037508, -20037508,20037508, 20037508),</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>restrictedExtent: new OpenLayers.Bounds(946290.410001, 6707196.356766, 1368222.80606, 6965247.764211),</div><div> controls: [new OpenLayers.Control.MouseDefaults()</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>,new OpenLayers.Control.PanZoomBar()</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>,new OpenLayers.Control.MousePosition()</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>,new OpenLayers.Control.ScaleLine({geodesic: true})]</div><div> });</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>thanks for any tips,</div><div><br></div><div>Rob</div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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