So basically if I have a WMS/WFS which supports EPSG:900913 then it should just work on GMaps, correct?
On Dec 18, 2007 1:39 PM, Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 08:19:35AM +1100, bradleyspencer wrote: > > Christian, > > (I'm Christopher. If you like, you can shorten that to Chris.) > > > I have been able to overlay vectors from a WFS request over GoogleMaps > using > > default EPSG:4326 in IE7 quite OK. When doing this in FF it is overlayed > but > > is clearly not in the right position/orientation/scale therefore > projection > > problem). > > > > I have not used sphericalMercator as I need to overlay data from WMS > > services that do not support EPSG:900913. > > > > CubeWerx supports this projection but other remote services that I am > using > > do not so I am intending to cascade through CubeWerx WMS to handle this > > projection. > > > > But I do not understand why if it works in IE it does not also work in > FF > > the same? > > Because Firefox and IE use totally different rendering engines -- and to > make it work in FF, we have to accept a 40% performance decrease. Given > the option, we decided against supporting it, and instead pursued > spherical mercator, which also solved the problems of overlaying WMS > data. (Since overlaying WMS data on Google doesn't actually work without > spherical mercator either.) > > Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta >
_______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
