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How, in JavaScript and OpenLayers, can I pass my WKT point string to a method and get back an object that will parse the longitude and latitude into properties for me?

'POINT (XXX YYY)'
to
SomeObject.longitude
and 
SomeOjbect.latitude
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    use ol.format.WKT#readFeature – Jose Hermosilla Rodrigo Jul 5 '17 at 14:49
  • I can't find longitude and latitude (debugger on line 13) in the feature object...jsfiddle.net/5hdu8bdr – Rod Jul 5 '17 at 15:33
  • To get a list of longitude/latitude from the feature just: feature.getGeometry().getCoordinates() – Jose Hermosilla Rodrigo Jul 5 '17 at 16:00
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    the coordinates look different 'POINT(10.689 -25.092)' vs [1189894.0370893013, -2887048.988883849]? – Rod Jul 5 '17 at 17:21
  • That's because you are converting the coordinates from 4326 to web mercator projection. You can either transform your coordinates (just for use/print) using ol.proj.transform or use EPSG:4326 as your map projection and let the wkt parser dont transform anything (get ride of featureProjection property). – Jose Hermosilla Rodrigo Jul 5 '17 at 17:48
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Try grabbing the coordinates with a regex:

wktString = 'POINT(10.689 -25.092)';
coordFinder = /\(\s?(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s?\)/g;
allMatches = coordFinder.exec(wktString);
lon = parseFloat(allMatches[1]);
lat = parseFloat(allMatches[2]);
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  • This is similar to what I was doing except I was using substring. – Rod Jul 5 '17 at 18:09

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