On 7/25/06, Ed McNierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ..
This will end up treating latitude and longitude as X/Y planar coordinates. It will give you a map that is useless for many applications, but it seems to be a popular way to make bad maps on the Web.
very funny ;-) Interestingly, while dealing with the real world, we seem to be more comfortable saying, "I've gotta drive n miles (or whatever unit of distance)," strangely we empathize more with lon/lats on the maps (it is hard to think of some bazillion meters x some bazillion meters as being the coords of, say Wash DC). Therein lies the human-map tragedy... -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/ Nelson Inst. for Env. Studies, UW-Madison http://www.ies.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://edu.osgeo.org/
