This would indeed be possible with current tiles - take a look at http://maps.cartifact.com/ - it is built with Flash, but you could easily build it with JS, too.
Christoph Boehme schrieb: > I had a similar thought a couple of weeks ago when I tried to find my > way using the map on the small screen of my hand held gps. Afterwards, > Rob Annable told me about Bendy Maps (see http://schulzeandwebb.com/hat/ > for an example). It's not exactly what I had in mind but still very cool :-) > > Christoph > > Kelly Jones wrote: > >> Most maps of small areas have a constant scale: eg: 100 pixels = 1 mile. >> >> Has anyone created maps w/ variable scales? >> >> An example would be: 100 pixels = 1 mile at the edge of the map, but >> 100 pixels = 100 feet at the center of the map. >> >> This would be useful for "driving directions" type maps, where small >> streets close to the destination are more important than large streets >> far away from the destination >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
