Yes quite right, I hadn't had my morning coffee when I wrote that ;) On 14/08/2010, at 9:25 AM, <christopher.schm...@nokia.com> wrote:
> > On Aug 13, 2010, at 5:21 PM, ext Adam Ratcliffe wrote: > >> EPSG:4326 is the code for the WGS84 coordinate reference system. >> OpenStreetMap tiles are rendered using the Spherical Mercator coordinate >> reference system (EPSG:900913 )so in order to use longitude/latitude >> coordinates with a Spherical Mercator map they must first be reprojected to >> Spherical Mercator coordinates. >> >> There's a good description of this on the OSM website: >> http://docs.openlayers.org/library/spherical_mercator.html > > (Which is, of course, on the OpenLayers website.) > > -- Chris > >> Cheers >> Adam >> >> On 14/08/2010, at 2:44 AM, Leonardo Gaona wrote: >> >>> What are the projections EPSG: 4326 ?? >>> and why we must transform from EPSG: 4326 to EPSG:900913 when we use osm >>> maps _______________________________________________ >>> Dev mailing list >>> Dev@openlayers.org >>> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dev mailing list >> Dev@openlayers.org >> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
