Please have a look at http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/2756 and provide feedback.
Regards, Andreas. On Jul 26, 2010, at 14:13 , Arnd Wippermann wrote: > Hi Anne, > > I agree, something like 'projectionAlias' is better to understand than > projection. > > Arnd > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: users-boun...@openlayers.org [mailto:users-boun...@openlayers.org] Im > Auftrag von Anne Blankert > Gesendet: Montag, 26. Juli 2010 00:02 > An: users@openlayers.org > Betreff: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] SphericalMercator and SRS aliases > epsg:900913, epsg:3857, epsg:3785, epsg:102113 > > > Hello Arnd, > > An option named "sphericalmercatoralias" is indeed very specific to > sphericalmercator. > Maybe, an option named "projection" is not specific enough. Users could > think that such an option would somehow magically allow reprojecting the > overlay projection to the map projection. Things would get mixed up, when > sending bounding box coordinates using the wrong projection. > So maybe an option named "projectionalias" would be a better name than > "sphericalmercatoralias" or "projection"? > "projectionalias" stresses the fact that the projection itself should not be > different, just the code that is being used for the projection. > > Anne > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/SphericalMercator-and-SRS-aliases-eps > g-900913-epsg-3857-epsg-3785-epsg-102113-tp5311417p5336039.html > Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Andreas Hocevar OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users