On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Patrick Kilian <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > THAT depends on your definition of "straight line". > > I suppose, but it'd have to be a pretty contrived definition of > > "straight line" to be equivalent to Spherical Mercator, would it not? > I think that line that are straight in mercator projections are > loxodroms. But I'm not 100% sure about that. > Hmm, seems you are right about that. Very cool. On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Egil Hjelmeland <[email protected]>wrote: > I think it does not hurt to define the exact meaning of a line-segment > in OSM. And I think that great circle (in wgs84) is the natural > choice, in stead of defining line to be straight relative to some > arbitrary projection. I don't know. The "WGS84" part is pretty arbitrary.
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