[OpenLayers-Users] Seeking advice over multiple projections (inc. polar)

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 02:01:32AM -0800, coastalrocket wrote:
> 
> Am i right in thinking that openlayers won't do reprojections on the fly?
> 
> I have an image of Antarctica in the Universal Polar Steregraphic projection
> loaded into geoserver as a WMS. I can create an openlayers client and
> receive the image. I also need to display a KML file on top. Now because the
> KML data is lat/long it's not going to set happy on the map unless
> openlayers reprojects it on the fly. From viewing threads on this mailing
> list i'm still not sure whether this is possible.

Yes.

http://docs.openlayers.org/spherical_mercator/#reprojecting-vector-data

You'll need to use proj4js to support your projection;
  http://trac.osgeo.org/proj4js/

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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