On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Jochen Topf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jochen@remote.org">jochen@remote.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Straight lines on the earth are not necessary straight lines in some projections. They<br>
should show up as curves. But if you don't have enought supporting nodes, you<br>
don't get nice curves.<br></blockquote><div><br>I just drew a great circle route for that 90 mile stretch of road in Australia, and it was so close to straight (in the projection) that I couldn't tell it was curved.<br>
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