On Nov 16, 2010, at 10:14 PM, ext Roald de Wit wrote:

> On 17/11/10 12:40, [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>> What exactly do you expect to happen when you provide completely 
>> unreasonable values to
>> reproject? :p Mercator projections go to infinity when you go to +90/-90, so 
>> there is no
>> actual reasonable thing to return in this case; the current behavior is 
>> certainly not
>> ideal, but the other option seems to me to be "throw an exception".
>> 
>> (This is why the mercator max bounds are at ~+/-85 degrees in the spherical 
>> mercator
>> tile bounds.)
> 
> Would it be an option to have OL automagically limit the bounds to 
> something like +89.999 and -89.999 (and provide a warning in the 
> console)? Or would this create more problems than solving them?

I don't have specific thoughts on that particular solution, but I think 
anything like
that should probably be pushed to the proj4js level, not done at the OL level.

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