On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Gunter Grau <[email protected]> wrote:
> I pretty much get the same results when I change projection to OSBG36 > (whatever that means ;-)). OSGB36 is the Ordinance Survey of Great Britain from 1936 projection. A projection is just a method used to take the surface of the earth (a sphere in really simple terms), and try and represent it on a flat plane. The type of distortion used is called the projection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection The OSGB36 projection is a Transverse Mercator projection with an origin just offshore between England and France. James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ Merkaartor mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/merkaartor
