Philip Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > I regularly see errors posted on mapdust similar to this, > > "I have put in a UK destination in Shrewsbury but the map appears to > be > in Germany." > > I have been closing these as they are nothing to do with OSM, but > anyone > have any idea why they occur, and why is it always Germany? > > I am seeing them in both Shropshire and Leicestershire, so doubt they > are posted by the same person. > > Thanks Phil > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
At a guess, there is a program bug that is using a constant value as part of the coordinates, rather than what the user entered, and which coincidentally causes the resulting coordinates to point to a location in Germany. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
