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I'm wondering what the best strategy to position a map that has two points, using OpenLayers is. At the moment, my approach is to calculate the mid-point of the two points, and to zoom the map to that mid-point using the following approach:

var centerPoint = new OpenLayers.LonLat(lon, lat);      
map.setCenter(centerPoint, zoomLevel);

However, this is not ideal as I don't know what the zoomLevel should be, so sometimes although the map is centered, the points are not visible.

Is there a better approach to dynamically position the map?

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the best way is that:

map.zoomToExtent(vectorLayer.getDataExtent());

var firstExtent = firstLayer.getDataExtent();
var secondExtent = secondLayer.getDataExtent();

var totalBounds = firstExtent.extend(secondExtent);

map.zoomToExtent(totalBounds);
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  • Do you know if there is a way of handling data on two separate layers? I have the two points style differently (I could also try to have them on the same layer but with separate styles I suppose).
    – djq
    Feb 14, 2013 at 14:14
  • i think you can extend your first bounds (first layer) with second bounds (second layer). i have updated my answer.
    – urcm
    Feb 14, 2013 at 14:34
  • This does make sense, but strangely firstExtent.extend(secondExtent) is undefined (both firstExtent and secondExtent have bounds that exist).
    – djq
    Feb 14, 2013 at 20:39

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