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 _______________________________________________ Potlatch-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/potlatch-dev
