[OpenLayers-Users] Mercator projections in OpenLayers

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 03:34:24PM +0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Are there any plans to be able to set your desired projection in OpenLayers? 
> My question relates to the OpenStreetMap rednerer (Freemap) at 
> http://nick.dev.openstreetmap.org/openlayers/ - as it stands, openlayers 
> grabs the tiles in non-Mercator (WGS84?) projection. Are there plans to allow 
> a developer to tell OpenLayers to fetch the tiles in Mercator instead, 
> similar to how the maps.civicactions.net tile engine does it? Or, do users 
> have to change their map renderer to accept a bounding box of 
> Mercator-projected, rather than standard latitudes and longitudes?

The maps.civicactions tile action does not support this action: the
tile.js that OpenStreetMap uses (and has become the most well maintained
version of tile.js) does support this, but does not support unprojected
data.

There are no plans to create a layer which supports non-linear changes
of geographic bounds. 

It should be possible to do this in a layer subclass, and we welcome
all patches for OpenLayers.  

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer