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

[Phil Scadden]

  Tim, apologies for the tone of earlier email. I am finding this a 
frustrating exercise and believe me, openlayers is best javascript 
client I can find. I really appreciate your efforts with this one. The 
alternative for us is arc web mapping and I've gone grey making it work. 
For the problem of combining vector data across the 180 line with google 
imagery, ESRI's response could be summarised as "bite your bum".


> Please don't try to bake in any assumptions about heading in a line
> segment.
But surely you are already making an assumption on 179 0, -179 0 - to 
draw it right around the globe? I cant think a of single application 
where this would be correct. An assumption surely has be made some time 
as a two point segment like this is inherently ambiguous on a globe. The 
shortest path assumption might not be the most economical from a 
programming points of view but is surely the one most likely to be correct?

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