Matthias Brandt wrote: > i've searched the archive of this mailinglist and the wiki about the > magical y-boundary set to 85.05113° (respective 180° projected) in the > Mercator Projection. > > The Wiki says [1]: > > By using this bound, the entire map becomes a (very large) square. > > Is this the only reason for this afficial bound? To have a square > instead of an rectangle? > And the reason "Google is using it, too" is not a really good > explanation for me...
Did you have an alternative value in mind? Tom -- Tom Hughes ([email protected]) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
