On Jul 19, 2010, at 11:37 AM, ext Anne Blankert wrote: > > Thanks for pointing to this fairly complete documentation. However, > the subject of why and how to use the epsg:900913 aliases and the > caveats is not yet included. I've added a section "SphericalMercator and > EPSG aliases" to http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/SphericalMercator. > > I don't think users can edit documentation such as > > http://docs.openlayers.org/library/spherical_mercator.html > > directly can they?
Correct, this would have to be done via patches. I have integrated your changes into the main documentation: http://docs.openlayers.org/library/spherical_mercator.html#sphericalmercator-and-epsg-aliases Thanks for the assist! -- Chris > > Anne >>> Hello Bart, >>> >>> My 2 cents: >>> In my opinion it is quite difficult for users to discover: >>> - OpenStreetMap, Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. use a projection called >>> 'SphericalMercator' >>> - 'SphericalMercator' in OpenLayers uses code 'epsg:900913' >> I think this is reasonably well documented in >> >> http://docs.openlayers.org/library/spherical_mercator.html >> >> and if you search for: >> >> http://docs.openlayers.org/search.html?q=google+projection >> >> You get that as one of the results. (Not as highly ranked as I would >> like, I'll admit, but it is there.) >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt Nokia _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
