On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:21:48PM -0600, Richard Greenwood wrote: >> > Type the following: >> > >> > new OpenLayers.LonLat(-71,42).transform(new >> > OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326"), new >> > OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:900913")); >> >> I know I'll get slammed for this, but it should be something more like: >> >> new OpenLayers.LonLat(-71,42).transform(new >> OpenLayers.CS("EPSG:4326"), new >> OpenLayers.CS("EPSG:900913")); >> >> Because EPSG:4326 is not a Projection, it is a Coordinate System. > > I don't mind you saying that, but the user should realize that when you > say "Should Be" you're not not instructing what he should actually be > doing in his current code, since the OpenLayers Library uses > OpenLayers.Projection, not OpenLayers.CS.
Yes, you are quite right about that. I did not mean to imply that OpenLayers.CS worked, I was picking at nomenclature. > I'd recommend if you care about this issue, you should bring it up with > the OpenLayers development list, but I wouldn't bother; getting people > to undestand "Projection" is hard enough. (ANd why should it be CS > instead of CRS? or SRS? Or any number of other names that it could be > related to?) CS, CRS, SRS are all great - they cover spherical & projected coordinate systems, and include datums. Projections are just projections w/o datums. -- Richard Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.greenwoodmap.com _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users