On 1/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Petter Reinholdtsen</b> <<a href="mailto:pere@hungry.com">pere@hungry.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>[Etienne Cherdlu]<br>> Can anyone explain why a simple spheric model is not sufficient?<br>> Does it result in cracks somewhere on the planet? Are lat and lon<br>> coordinates incorrect for someone's street somewhere? Is the
<br>> distance between two points distorted in some way?<br><br>The latter. The distance between two points are distorted. Also,<br>coordinates in lat/lon do not mark the location they should mark. I<br>ran into a problem with OSM trying to pinpoint the GPS location of
<br>DebConf7 in Edinburgh (55.94508 -3.18867), the coordinate in Google<br>Maps was correct, while the same coordinate in OSM was way off.</blockquote><div><br>When I look at this on both OSM and Google I can't see any significant difference. What method did you use to show that there is a difference?
<br><br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Friendly,<br>--<br>Petter Reinholdtsen<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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