[OpenLayers-Dev] Patrch for getting vector drawing working over the 180 line going.

[Phil Scadden]

> How do you know that the line (179 0, -179 0) is meant to cross the date line?
>    
You cant as far as I know. And how would you unambiguously specify it? 
We generally store everything in arcSDE in WGS84 lat/long and depend on 
client mapping to sort it out. When you have no unambiguous way of 
specify which way the line goes, the obvious convention is take the 
shortest distance. ship track/air track are overwhelming source of data 
in this catagory while I cant really think of a mapping application 
where you would want 179,0, -179,0 to be circle the globe.
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