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MeasureAction in Web Mercator Issues...

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04-09-2011 06:49 PM
RyanCoodey
Frequent Contributor
In the spirit of testing our current web maps with the 2.2 beta, I am also looking into moving from using WGS_1984 to WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere, since this seems to be the way things are going (and we want to use ESRI's latest imagery).

After pulling my hair for a bit trying to figure out why the distances given by the MeasureAction were about 20% larger than they should be, I found this article: http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/arcgisserver/archive/2010/03/05/Measuring-distances-and-areas-when-y...

Sooo, I don't know what to do now... any guidance would be great:

- I don't see any way to tell the MeasureAction to work in a different coordinate system... 
- What good is the MeasureAction if it there is no way to get proper values from it?  Am I missing something simple? Or is it a bug? Or should I submit a feature enhancement?
- If I keep the map in WGS_1984, and bring in a Web_Mercator service, it doesn't even show up... so no using the current imagery that way.
- All our maps and data are in California, so I need it to be accurate within that area.

I am hoping I am just missing something simple here... but any helping getting us moved to Web Mercator would be great!  Thanks a lot!
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DominiqueBroux
Esri Frequent Contributor
The measures will take care of  web mercator spatial reference from the version 2.2 (not done in beta though).
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RyanCoodey
Frequent Contributor
Dominique, that�??s music to my ears... Thanks a lot for that info, I will just be patient and wait then.  Thanks!
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