[OSM-dev] Map distortions in JOSM

[Jon Burgess]

On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 13:13 -0500, Matthias Julius wrote:
> Jon Burgess <jburgess777 at googlemail.com> writes:
> 
> > - mercator should give a square x/y grid in metres. 
> 
> Well, not exactly. Mercator gives a x/y grid in mercator
> coordinates. The scaling factor depends on the latitude.
> 
> Matthias

Sure, but but over the scale of a few km's the deviation from a square
grid would be hard to measure. A circular route would still look
circular (which was the OPs original question).

	Jon