2008/9/23 Thomas Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For webmap rendering we use the spherical mercator projection, which > assumes the earth is spherical. Although it's not particularly > accurate, the maps are good enough. I believe the spherical earth is > assumed since it simplifies client-side calculations considerably.
Well, Google and everybody else use the assumption of a spherical earth. As long as we do the same, the OSM tiles are a drop-in replacement for other tiles. -- Lauri Hahne _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
