Dear list, Is there a way to convert the x/y-coodinates, measured from the top- left corner of a map centered at a fixed position and zoom level, to lat/long-coordinates without running on a browser? For instance, is there a webservice available for this?
Background: I need to show on my website a very, very low-bandwidth map of a specific, fixed region at a specific, fixed zoom level. To meet the bandwith requirement, I would show a PNG copy with the map (including credits to OpenLayer, of course) and only load a very small piece of custom JavaScript code -- not the whole OpenLayers JS file. When the user clicks the map, the code sends the x/y-coordinates back to the webserver via AJAX. The server now needs to convert these to lat/long-coordinates. Is there an easy way to achieve this? Thanks in advance for any guidance on this. hbf P.S. I have posted about this subject on the Google Maps API list a few minutes before but have become aware of OpenLayers while searching a little further. For the sake of completeness, here is the link to the original message regarding the Google Maps API: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/browse_thread/thread/278923f0aad4811a/ad50789413873976?lnk=gst&q=web+service+coordinates#ad50789413873976 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
