On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Richard Fairhurst
<[email protected]> wrote:
> In other words, latp->y co-ordinate is just a simple matter of
> multiplication, just like lon->x co-ordinate (in the Mercator projection, at
> any rate).
>
> If you didn't project it then things would look squished and you wouldn't be
> able to use tile backgrounds.

Ah, thanks. That explains why latp is used almost everywhere over lat.

Steve

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