Hi, Am Sonntag 23 August 2009 schrieb Liz: > plane, and 'precision' is not part of a Mercator projection. Mercator's > projection was for the purpose of calculating direction of travel, in > particular for seafarers. a) osm by itself does not have a projection. It's the maps that project the osm data b) mercartor is "as precise as possible" with repect to directions.
Sure, a map cannot be perfect and you have to select those aspects that are important for your particular application (be it angles or distances or just the selection of objects you show). But that all doesn't give us a reason to add artificial, misleading and useless information to the osm maps. Till _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
