Re: [Hampshire] OpenLayers

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Author: Jonathan Hudson
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] OpenLayers
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:59:09 +0000
philip <philip@???> wrote:

> Has anybody tried using OpenLayers[1]?
>
> I have had a go setting up a map at http://stuphi.co.uk/map/ but I can't
> get the mouse position to display in degrees. It looks like it is using
> meters at the moment.
>
> Regards,
> Philip Stubbs
>
> [1] http://www.openlayers.org
>
>


I have used it some time ago; I recall it worked as advertised. When I
got the selection bounding box, it was in lat/long degrees (as the
underlying map data was WGS84, geographic projection). What is your
map data (projection, datum etc)? If you have a local copy, can you run
gdalinfo on it?

-jonathan