<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Frederik Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank">frederik@remote.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Someone said that taking the area into account should improve the results for Indonesia; either I did something wrong ior the opposite is the case - Indonesia featured at #23 before and has now dropped completely off the list.<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That was me. I was mistaken. For a given zoom level in Mercator projection, a tile in an equatorial area shows more real-world area than in a more northern or southern latitudes.<br>
<br>I actually confused the land area with scale: a tile in an equatorial area has a smaller scale than in a more northern or southern latitudes. So land area is inversely proportional to map scale.<br></div></div>