qFox wrote: > Maybe I did something wrong, but when I set geodesic to true, I got > (globe) rounded lines, rather than plane-straight lines. Especially on > a high zoomlevel (<5). > That is correct in order to at all zoom levels have features staying as you say it on the right side of the line... it will appear curved on a Mercator projected map. ... > I'm probably going to try to take the approach to break up a line > depending on zoomlevel or something. Or maybe stop caring about such > lines... Geodesic is correct if you want them matching features all the way along the path. Its also the only as the crows fly straight line you need to study map projections this isnt an error excepting that all the online maps chose one of the least useful projections to put things in ;-) ie neither shapes nor distance appear wysiwyg
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