[OpenLayers-Users] Editable drawing panel draws not at tip of cursor

[Peter Dawn]

in the southern hemisphere the dot is away from the cursor, but in the
northern hemisphere its closer to the cursor.

is changing to spherical mercator the only way, to fix the issue?

cheers,
Pete.

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Christopher Schmidt
<crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 03:03:44PM +1000, Peter Dawn wrote:
>> hi guys,
>>
>> am working on a openlayer geoserver map application.
>>
>> now when i place the editable layer on my map, the drawing toolbar
>> shows up fine. but when i put a dot on the map, the dot is away from
>> my cursor. as i go north towards the border of the map, the dot gets
>> closer to my cursor. same with the rest of the drawing tools. anyone
>> know whats wrong here.
>
> Huh. I would expect the opposite, unless you're editing in the Southern
> Hemisphere. I'm assuming youre using Google Maps, and not spherical
> mercator, and running into:
>  http://faq.openlayers.org/vector-related-questions/why-dont-my-vector-features-work-over-google-yahoo-virtual-earth-etc/
>
> But... maybe not. You'll need to provide more information:
>
>  http://docs.openlayers.org/help/minimize.html
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
>