[OpenLayers-Dev] Ordnance Survey OpenSpace using OpenLayers

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:50:56AM -0800, The Bun wrote:
> 
> 
> Christopher Schmidt-4 wrote:
> > 
> > Some of the things that you developed are thigns we're working on
> > improving for our next release: for example, as of the past 48 hours,
> > the trunk of OpenLayers now has the ability to use custom
> > transformations to reproject data, and we're working on extending that
> > to apply to various formats and classes in the OpenLayers API. Hopefully
> > this will let OpenSpace and other activities like it move forward more
> > easily in the future.
> > 
> 
> Hi Christopher 
> 
> What do you mean with custom transformations to reproject data? Do you mean
> that while for example the data are in BNG we can reproject the layer in a 
> different standard client side? 

Yep.

> Could you help with an example?

http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/crschmidt/projection/examples/convert-data.html

> Anyway it would be great if all the adding done by OpenSpace would be
> supported by OL already. I tried to read some Ordnance Survey GML with
> OL GML layers and I failed I think because OS developed an extra
> layers of the OGC standard GML schemas which I don't think is
> supported by OL, right?

Doubtful. I'd be interested in seeing any GML that the convert-data demo
above can't handle posted to the mailing list.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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