At 8:20 AM +0200 10/3/07, Flavio Hendry wrote:
just because someone out there is picky about terms.
That language makes the Mapserver change sound like pedantic nonsense. I assure you it is not. Someone coming into Mapserver from a cartographic or navigation background looks at "scale" as an axis increasing in one direction, but the old Mapserver terminology turned that axis completely around. I was forever questioning what "smaller scale" and "minimum scale" meant in the documentation--do they mean the real definition, or the Mapserver definition?
If you're going to use precise terms from any discipline in a software project for that discipline, the software should honor their meaning, not reverse it.
Hal
