[OpenLayers-Users] help -re images and reprojections

2009-03-22 Thread chris Wild
Hi all, Thanks for the recent discussions on reprojections, they have helped clarify the process. Working fine for features, but Im struggling with an image using OpenLayers. When I load the the image(projected EPSG 27200)as a coverage (using raster image with spatial data file) it is only visible

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] WGS84 data on Google layer

2009-03-22 Thread Craig Stanton
Ah ha, that's the ticket, thanks Jan. I find it a bit strange that I still need to convert my (WGS84) coordinates for map.setCenter from EPSG:4326 into the map's coordinates when I thought I was telling the map to use 4326 with the options below. Perhaps I am missing a step, or redoing one twic

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Newbie question - displaying layer of text objects on a map

2009-03-22 Thread Andreas Hocevar
Hi, 2009/3/22 Andrew Smith : > Andreas, you mentioned that if my data was in PostGIS I could use either a > WMS or WFS to get the data.  If I went down the WMS path, I would have one > WMS for my base map layer, and another one for my text objects layer.  My You could also combine these into one

[OpenLayers-Users] MapFish printing?

2009-03-22 Thread Gregor at HostGIS
A colleague showed me MapFish a while back, and what has really caught my eye lately is the printing capability. The printing process which I've posted to the Wiki is extremely slow; but MapFish's is very fast. But I don't speak Java so I can't reverse engineer it to see how they made it so fas

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Newbie question - displaying layer of text objects on a map

2009-03-22 Thread Andrew Smith
Thanks for the info guys. I'm glad it wasn't something simple that I was overlooking. I'm surprised that there aren't more OpenLayers-based apps out there that have a need for layers of text that don't come across as part of the image with the geometric data. It's an absolute necessity for mine.

[OpenLayers-Users] Zooming to an extend via link outside map viewport

2009-03-22 Thread Max Stephan
Hey everybody, I want to place a link outside the map which zooms to a specified extent (something like "javascript: map.zoomToExtent(new OpenLayers.Bounds(1,2,3,4))" as a link in the body). But it´s logically not that easy because I have to get access to the map-variable that is unfortunately in

Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Newbie question - displaying layer of text objects on a map

2009-03-22 Thread Andreas Hocevar
Hi, On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Andrew Smith wrote: > I am an absolute beginner when it comes to all things GIS.  I've been > playing with OpenLayers for a few days and am quite impressed with what it > can do so far.  However, something I haven't been able to find any examples > of is showi