[OpenLayers-Users] Projection issues

[Ben Brehmer]

Thanks Christopher,

A bit obvious after all :) We've changed our layer object to use meter 
units and mercator projection.

Thanks,

Ben

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:57:14AM -0800, Ben Brehmer wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> We have a basic OpenLayers setup with the most recent SVN code (checked 
>> out today).
>> We are using Kamap as a backend and the tiles are all pre-cached in 
>> mercator.
>>     
>
> I must be misunderstanding something here: If your map is in mercator,
> you can't be using decimal degrees as units. I'll admit that I'm no GIS
> specialist, but something here doesn't make sense. If you are taking
> Mercator and treating the maps that are generated as linear in units, I
> would expect the behavior you're seeing.
>
> If your maps are projected, and then you treat them as if they are
> unprojected, as you are currently doing, the units won't match.
>
> I don't know what interface you would have been using before which would
> have behaved differently -- can you provide some information about what
> the old code did that the new code doesn't?
>
> Regards,
>