[OSM-dev] Openlayers cyclemap permalinks

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 09:47:56PM +0100, OJ W wrote:
> The cycle map seems to have the openlayers permalink bug [1] - is it
> possible to apply the latest openlayers corrections so that it uses
> lat/long in permalinks?

It's not a bug.

> Can someone from OL also reply to this, saying how to do the correction?

Upgrade to 2.6, add 
 displayProjection: new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326")

to the map creation options.

> [1] http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/osm/?zoom=13&lat=6781599.86453&lon=-126905.18782&layers=B00
> 
> 6781599 degrees north is not the usual way of representing positions

No, But like all things OpenLayers, 'lat' means 'units of y', not
'degrees of latitude'. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta