Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/11/25 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Hi, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Martes, 24 de Noviembre de 2009, Frederik Ramm escribió: Maybe ~= 100km, but == 60 nm. Am I the only one who has read that as 60 nanometers? No, a certain Martin K. has already reported the same. I'd say

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-24 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/11/23 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net Hi all, I'm pleased to announce Potlatch 1.3 - a new version with one major improvement. Potlatch now lets you zoom in as far as zoom level 23. Previous versions only went up to z19, and even then with some loss of positional accuracy.

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-24 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:41 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/24 Anthony o...@inbox.org: Nevermind.  That's about half an inch, and it doesn't seem to be less than a pixel (at my latitude/longitude, anyway).  For some reason last time i calculated it I thought it was

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-24 Thread Peter Miller
On 23 Nov 2009, at 16:58, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Lunes, 23 de Noviembre de 2009, Richard Fairhurst escribió: Potlatch now lets you zoom in as far as zoom level 23. Previous versions only went up to z19, and even then with some loss of positional accuracy. I can already see the

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-24 Thread Andrew Errington
On Wed, November 25, 2009 07:40, Peter Miller wrote: On 23 Nov 2009, at 16:58, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Lunes, 23 de Noviembre de 2009, Richard Fairhurst escribió: Potlatch now lets you zoom in as far as zoom level 23. Previous versions only went up to z19, and even then with some

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-24 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Martes, 24 de Noviembre de 2009, Frederik Ramm escribió: Maybe ~= 100km, but == 60 nm. Am I the only one who has read that as 60 nanometers? -- -- Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es http://ivan.sanchezortega.es Proudly running Debian Linux with

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-24 Thread Bráulio Bezerra da Silva
I'm still reading it nanometers even after reading your email and after spending 7 months in a flight simulator company! 2009/11/24 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es El Martes, 24 de Noviembre de 2009, Frederik Ramm escribió: Maybe ~= 100km, but == 60 nm. Am I the only one who has

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Martes, 24 de Noviembre de 2009, Frederik Ramm escribió: Maybe ~= 100km, but == 60 nm. Am I the only one who has read that as 60 nanometers? No, a certain Martin K. has already reported the same. I'd say it depends on context; nm is often, if sloppily,

[OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, I'm pleased to announce Potlatch 1.3 - a new version with one major improvement. Potlatch now lets you zoom in as far as zoom level 23. Previous versions only went up to z19, and even then with some loss of positional accuracy. This makes Potlatch much more suitable for tracing

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-23 Thread Dave F.
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Hi all, I'm pleased to announce Potlatch 1.3 - a new version with one major improvement. Potlatch now lets you zoom in as far as zoom level 23. Excellent news. Thank you Dave F. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-23 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Lunes, 23 de Noviembre de 2009, Richard Fairhurst escribió: Potlatch now lets you zoom in as far as zoom level 23. Previous versions only went up to z19, and even then with some loss of positional accuracy. I can already see the headlines of Potlatch 2.0: Potlatch, now with more resolution

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-23 Thread Anthony
2009/11/23 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es: El Lunes, 23 de Noviembre de 2009, Richard Fairhurst escribió: Potlatch now lets you zoom in as far as zoom level 23. Previous versions only went up to z19, and even then with some loss of positional accuracy. I can already see the

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-23 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: 2009/11/23 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es: El Lunes, 23 de Noviembre de 2009, Richard Fairhurst escribió: Potlatch now lets you zoom in as far as zoom level 23. Previous versions only went up to z19, and even then with

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-23 Thread John Smith
2009/11/24 Anthony o...@inbox.org: Nevermind.  That's about half an inch, and it doesn't seem to be less than a pixel (at my latitude/longitude, anyway).  For some reason last time i calculated it I thought it was more. You should use metric it's easier since metric distances were based on a

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, John Smith wrote: You should use metric it's easier since metric distances were based on a rough approximation of the circumference of the earth ;) 1 degree of latitude and at the equator, 1 degree of longitude ~= 100km Maybe ~= 100km, but == 60 nm. One nautical mile is exactly one

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-23 Thread John Smith
2009/11/24 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Maybe ~= 100km, but == 60 nm. One nautical mile is exactly one minute of Because they estimated the circumference to 36,000km, but it's over 40,000km arc. Say again which system was naturally suited for all things geo? 1 nautical mile is exactly

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-23 Thread John Smith
2009/11/24 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: 1 nautical mile is exactly 1852m Sorry, it was set to 1853m. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk