Many thanks for your answers. I will have a look through the osm2pgsql code to try figure out the scaling factor.
-- Brad On 16 Dec 2008, 5:27 PM, "Thomas Wood" <[email protected]> wrote: osm2pgsql uses a spherical mercator projection which cuts down on the amount of math required to produce a reasonable estimation of the earth for our uses. It's not a 'proper' projection in the GIS sense, but it works for our purposes. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mercator#Spherical_Mercator I'm not sure what scaling factor osm2pgsql uses Somewhat related implementations are at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tilenames#Java 2008/12/16 Bradley Kite <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > I wonder if any one could be so kind as to help me out with a problem > I am having wi... > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster)
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