On Wed, February 4, 2009 13:27, Matthias Brandt wrote: >>> i've searched the archive of this mailinglist and the wiki about the >>> magical y-boundary set to 85.05113° (respective 180° projected) in >>> the Mercator Projection. >> >> Did you have an alternative value in mind? > > Not really. But I would like to know, if there is any reason for this. > I'm writing my Bachelor thesis about OpenStreetMaps and I would like to > explain this bound.
Quadtiles, quadtiles, quadtiles. Having a big square allows you to subdivide images in a fashion similar to quadtrees. Using rectangles would mess things up. -- Iván Sánchez Ortega <[email protected]> Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una herramienta compleja. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
