2010/1/9 Martin Siegel <[email protected]>: > AFAIK this is not correct. First of all the PoV of Mercator projection > is not going through the center of the earth. It's a somehow stretched > cylindrical projection and it goes through the north-south-axis. > The way it is stretched causes that angles on the earth are the same as > on the map. I'm not completely sure, but I believe the only straight > lines that correlate between earth's surface and Mercator projected maps > are the equator and all great circles parallel to the meridians.
Not quite, it's about 45 degrees north/south is in correct proportions, everything else gets stretched. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
