2010/1/9 Frederik Ramm <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Anthony wrote: >> I'd imagine for some applications we'd want the former (a straight >> road/rail), and for some we'd want the latter (the border of Wyoming). >> Which should be the official definition according to the specs? > > Because very few people in OSM have any formal training in geography or > cartography, it is very likely that most mappers - having the standard > slippy map in mind - will assume that a straight line on Earth is a
... > I think 1km is fine, 5km is acceptable, 10km is stretching the envelope > and anything above that is asking for trouble. OSMI highlights distances You are confusing things, the OSM data is stored in lat/lon which has no projection, it's only when it's projected (converted) to be made into a tile that it becomes a set of points. So a straight line in the database as on the planet will still be a straight line, if the rendering software needs more points it needs to deal with it. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
