This should work just fine. There won't be a serious performance hit either as you only recalculate bbox and change srs on the clientside. I do it quite often and even extended a wms layer class so I can quickly set up my 4326 layers to work with spherical Mercator. However you may experience some issues with tile caching as sometimes the precision may vary from browser to browser. Another thing is the getFeatureInfo request - make sure you send correct cords if you are going to use it. dom
-----Original Message----- From: openlayers-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:openlayers-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ray Di Ciaccio Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 6:00 PM To: openlayers-dev@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [OpenLayers-Dev] WMS request mod Sorry for the previous messed up message. Let me try this again: Hi all, I'm in what I'm guessing is a fairly common situation -- I'm using Google Maps as my baselayer (so map is in EPSG:9009l3 projection) and I'm trying to load an overlay from a WMS which I have no control over. It only offers data in EPSG:4326. The WMS request generated by OpenLayers will be for CRS=EPSG:900913 and the BBOX values will be in EPSG:900913. This obviously won't work if the WMS only offers EPSG:4326. My solution to this problem was to override OpenLayers.Layer.WMS.getFullRequestString() so that it uses the projection that I set for that particular layer -- it changes the CRS/SRS param to whatever the layer projection is, and it transforms the BBOX values from the map projection to the layer's projection. This way I get a valid request for the WMS and it's loaded in the correct location on the basemap. My question is whether this is the right approach to this situation and whether there may be unforeseen repercussions to these changes I made. Thanks! - Ray -- Ray Di Ciaccio MIT LL, Group 42 781-981-2024 ray.diciac...@ll.mit.edu _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list d...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list d...@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev
