Andreas, Thank you for that information! You've solved my problem and even fixed one of my todo items of getting the MousePosition into UTM!
Thanks!!!! Shawn Andreas Hocevar-2 wrote: > > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:38 PM, soatley<[email protected]> wrote: > > Your co-workers are right. Maps in geographic coordinates (EPSG:4326) > look like that. The further you get away from the equator, the more > the map will be shrunk in latitudinal direction. This is not a bug, > but a matter of choosing the appropriate map projection. > >> The GIS staff tell me that our data is projected in UTM 17N NAD83. > > The EPSG code for this projection is probably EPSG:26917. See > http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/26917/ > > So the two things to change in your code is that you set the > projection to EPSG:26917 instead of EPSG:4326, set units to "m" > (meters), and provide the maxExtent in projected coordinates. > > Regards, > Andreas. > > > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Map-Aspect-Ratio-Seems-Off-%28Makes-layers-wide%29-tp3122010p3138291.html Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
