[OpenLayers-Users] OpenLayers Question: Google Physical Projections and epsg:26915

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Fri Jun 27 09:17:53 EDT 2008


On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 08:43:31AM -0400, Paul Spencer wrote:
> You can't change the projection of the Google layer - it comes in one  
> projection, spherical mercator.  If you want to overlay your data on  
> the Google base data, you have to serve it up in a spherical mercator  
> projection.  There is an ad-hoc EPSG code for this, EPSG:900913 and  
> you can find the actual projection parameters at:
> 
> http://spatialreference.org/ref/user/google-mapsmicrosoft-live/

Actually, http://spatialreference.org/ref/user/google-projection/

> I believe that there is now a real EPSG code for this projection in  
> the latest EPSG release but I am not sure how widely supported it is  
> yet.

It's not, in OpenLayers.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta



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