[OpenLayers-Dev] Problem with getting latitude nad longitude(mapnik layer)

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Tue Feb 17 16:12:58 EST 2009


sniipe wrote:

> On click event(only on Mapnik layer) I received some data, but it is  
> not longitude and latitude. And my question is how to convert it to  
> get properly values(lat, lon)?

Yes - project it back from 900913 (spherical mercator) to 4326 
(lat/lon). Off the top of y head, something like this should do it:

latlon.transform(map.getProjectionObject(),
                  new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326"))

Tom

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