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

[coastalrocket]

Thanks Chris,
Glad to know that i'm on the right route. I'm busy knocking up a bit of java
that'll read in the kml and send it to proj4 for conversion.


Christopher Schmidt-4 wrote:
> 
> 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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