[OpenLayers-Dev] Editable polygon

[Andy Deakin]

Thanks for the quick response, it works like a charm!

Nice to know that the documentation is uptodate.


Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> 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,
>