[OpenLayers-Dev] Scale control uses moveend

[Eric Lemoine]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Christopher Schmidt
<crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:37:05PM -0400, Alexandre Dube wrote:
>> Hi Everybody,
>>
>>     Is it ok if the Scale control registers a "moveend" event instead of a "zoomend" ?  To recalculate the scale after panning doesn't look very useful to me.  What do you think ?
>
> At some point in the future, the scale control may actually use geodesic
> measurements for determining measurements: in a case where you have a
> global map, scale is obviously not the same everywhere (think a Mercator
> map), and there has been some rumbling from people that they are unable
> to use the scale control because it doesn't match the Google
> Maps-created expectation that the scalebar will change as you drag north
> and south on a Mercator projected map.

I wouldn't have thought of that. Thanks for the explanation Chris.

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Eric