Ok, thanks for the suggestions. We'll see how it all works out. -Ken
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 03:33:29PM -0500, Ken Stuart wrote: > > The results might include vectors extending across the dateline, as > > well as placing custom point icons that overlie the dateline. Further, > > it's likely that we'd want to incorporate drag-boxes for zooming or > > annotations that cross it as well. > > > > Are the dateline issues likely to interfere with those needs? > > Yes. > > > > Are they being worked on? > > Nope. > > (Note that these problems aren't solved in the Google Maps API, or any > other API that I'm aware of: Even Google Earth has problems with > wrapping the dateline and the poles.) > > Your best bet, in my opinion, is to project your coordinates such that > positions that wuold be less than 0 are 'wrapped' to the righthand side. > OpenLayers has no qualms about displaying data across a 180 degree > border -- so you simply take anything that's less than 0, add 360 to it, > and use that as your data. > > Obviously, this may be non-trivial, depending on your data, but it then > removes the dateline wrapping issues that one might run into, since > there is no longer a 'dateline' in any meaningful sense. > > Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
