[OpenLayers-Users] SphericalMercator and SRS aliases epsg:900913, epsg:3857, epsg:3785, epsg:102113

[christopher.schmidt at nokia.com]

On Jul 19, 2010, at 11:37 AM, ext Anne Blankert wrote:

> 
>  Thanks for pointing to this fairly complete documentation. However, 
> the subject of why and how to use the epsg:900913 aliases and the 
> caveats is not yet included. I've added a section "SphericalMercator and 
> EPSG aliases" to http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/SphericalMercator.
> 
> I don't think users can edit documentation such as
> 
> http://docs.openlayers.org/library/spherical_mercator.html
> 
> directly can they?

Correct, this would have to be done via patches.

I have integrated your changes into the main documentation:

  http://docs.openlayers.org/library/spherical_mercator.html#sphericalmercator-and-epsg-aliases

Thanks for the assist!

-- Chris

> 
> Anne
>>>  Hello Bart,
>>> 
>>> My 2 cents:
>>> In my opinion it is quite difficult for users to discover:
>>> - OpenStreetMap, Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. use a projection called
>>> 'SphericalMercator'
>>> - 'SphericalMercator' in OpenLayers uses code 'epsg:900913'
>> I think this is reasonably well documented in
>> 
>>   http://docs.openlayers.org/library/spherical_mercator.html
>> 
>> and if you search for:
>> 
>>  http://docs.openlayers.org/search.html?q=google+projection
>> 
>> You get that as one of the results. (Not as highly ranked as I would
>> like, I'll admit, but it is there.)
>> 
> 
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Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Nokia