Miller Puckette wrote: > If I'm doing it right, single precision float should be able to represent > latitude and longitude to within about two meters.
yes, a precision of 2m is just not enough for showing buildings or streets. > If more precision than that is needed, you'll want to use "tr" to change > periods (as well as commas) into spaces so that you get lines like: > -112 3348783983763 36 1514008468736 100 > Then filter for whatever range of integer latitudes and longitudes you're > actually looking at. Then you should get 1 degree x 2^-24, better than a > centimeter. ok, scaling turns out to be a crucial problem to solve for the project. (what details to show at which levels of scaling...) have to figure that out first... thnks, marius. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
