Inge Wallin <[email protected]> writes: > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 20:43:35 Matthias Julius wrote: >> Inge Wallin <[email protected]> writes: >> > Hi, one of the Marble developers here... >> >> I noticed that Marble shows the map right up to the poles. These are >> not covered by Mercator maps. So I suspect Marble stretches the map a >> little bit leading to some inaccuracies like water reaching almost >> directly up to the south pole. >> >> It would be more accurate if Marble did not stretch the map and >> instead allowed a fill color or image to be specified for each pole. >> Or is this already possible? > > Good point! I'll have to check what actually happens. > > Can you register this on bugs.kde.org as well?
Actually, after looking at the south pole again a little more carefully it seems more like Marble is projecting the pixels at the edge of the tiles towards the pole. At least this is not completely unreasonable. Matthias _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
