Mercator projection world map with Geoserver and Openlayers

Question

I'm trying to render a world map shapefile on my Geoserver with a Mercator projection. I've tried declaring the SRS on Geoserver and defining EPSG projections of 3785 or 900913 in Openlayers with no success. I've also tried to reproject the shapefile using ogr2ogr but the result is slightly off.

Original:

Converted:

Here's the command used:

ogr2ogr -t_srs EPSG:3785 target.shp source.shp

I'm new to this technology & mapping concepts. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

The geoserver pointer for this is continuous map wrapping.

In geoserver 2.0.1+ and above this problem can be resolved by starting geoserver with the following JVM options:

-DADVANCED_PROJECTION_HANDLING=true -DUSE_STREAMING_RENDERER=true

In the upcoming geoserver 2.1.X, this settings are turned on by default.

example image of a map projected in epsg:900913

more info: http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/2010/02/geoserver-continuous-map-wrapping.html