[OpenLayers-Dev] Editable polygon

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:56:11AM +0000, Andy Deakin wrote:
> This is great! Thanks.
> 
> Is there a preferred way to find the coordinates of an edited polygon 
> (e.g. to send back to a server via ajax).
> At the moment I have found two ways:
> 
> 1) Parsing the polygon.geometry.toString() by stripping off the 
> POLYGON(( and )), then splitting by comma, then splitting by space 
> (seems a bit messy)
> 2) loop through polygon.geometry.components[0].components[i]

Do this.

> In the documentation 
> http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Geometry-js.html there 
> also appears to be a getVertices() function, but it doesn't seem to 
> exist. Has this been removed?

No, but it was only added 48 hours ago.

> Also, it there the feature to transform the coords into decimal degrees 
> format on the client side?

var geom = geometry.clone().transform(new OL.Projection("EPSG:900913"),
                                      new OL.Projection("EPSG:4326"));

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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