Hi, A small trick to get an extent : use the MousePosition control [1], then set your map extent using the setCenter [2] method or zoomToExtent [3].
[1] http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/mouse-position.html [2] http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.8/doc/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Map-js.html#OpenLayers.Map.setCenter [3] http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.8/doc/apidocs/files/OpenLayers/Map-js.html#OpenLayers.Map.zoomToExtent Hope this helps, Alexandre eoinyp wrote: > Thank you Alexandre, > I now realise that the (-180,-90,180,90) system wont work because Im using > EPSG:900913, spherical mercator, which is where The projection > maxExtent: new OpenLayers.Bounds(-20037508, -20037508,20037508, 20037508.34) > comes in. > Thank you. > But Im still stuck as to how to set the map to focus on Ireland. I dont > understand how to define the bounds of a suitable box. Can you give me any > pointers there? > Thanks, > > Eoinyp. > > > -- Alexandre Dubé Mapgears www.mapgears.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
