Thanks Julien, although if possible I would like to avoid using the
server and serve a static image of the area, but with the ability to
deal with user interactions (specifically a drawn polygon) with the
correct co-ordinates.

Mo.

On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 12:23 +0200, Julien Cigar wrote:
> If your WMS server is well configured, the following should work:
> 
> var your_layer= new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS(
>       "layer_name",
>          "http://your.wms.server/";, {
>                       'layers' : 'layer_name',
>                  'transparent' : true,
>                  'isBaseLayer' : false
>           });
> your_map.addLayer(your_layer);
> 
> You should probably use EPSG:3031 as projection
> 
> FYI I use something like this on the server side (MapServer):
> 
>      LAYER
>          NAME "antarctic"
>          TYPE RASTER
>          STATUS ON
>          DATA antarctica_sthn_ocean.tiff
>          PROJECTION
>              "init=epsg:3031"
>          END
>          METADATA
>              "wms_title" "ant"
>          END
>      END
> 
> Julien

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