[OpenLayers-Users] Map Aspect Ratio Seems Off (Makes layers wide)

[soatley]

Andreas,

Thank you for that information!  You've solved my problem and even fixed one
of my todo items of getting the MousePosition into UTM!

Thanks!!!!
Shawn


Andreas Hocevar-2 wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:38 PM, soatley<shawn at niagarafalls.ca> wrote:
> 
> Your co-workers are right. Maps in geographic coordinates (EPSG:4326)
> look like that. The further you get away from the equator, the more
> the map will be shrunk in latitudinal direction. This is not a bug,
> but a matter of choosing the appropriate map projection.
> 
>> The GIS staff tell me that our data is projected in UTM 17N NAD83.
> 
> The EPSG code for this projection is probably EPSG:26917. See
> http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/26917/
> 
> So the two things to change in your code is that you set the
> projection to EPSG:26917 instead of EPSG:4326, set units to "m"
> (meters), and provide the maxExtent in projected coordinates.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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