[OpenLayers-Users] openlayers as a globe

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 05:51:25PM +0100, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I just saw this ticket:
> http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/487
> 
> are there plans for using openlayers to render a rotating globe? Can 
> anybody elobarate on this? Thanks in advance.

"Just when you thought browsers weren't slow enough!"

The ticket for #487 is for implementing dateline wrapping like Google
Maps does -- 

  http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=0&ll=37.0625,-95.677068&spn=179.428987,360&om=1

not for implementing any kind of Globe. The reason for this desire is to
allow cached tiles to fill as much of the viewport as possible, rather
than having white space to the sides.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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