[OSM-dev] Cutting the planet into tiles

[Dave Stubbs]

2008/12/5 Doru Julian Bugariu <j.bugariu at wad.org>:
> Frederik Ramm schrieb:
>
>> But then again, at 1x1 degree, unless we're talking Santa Claus land, a
>> way that spans more than 4 tiles would have to be tens of miles long.
>
> Or a roundabout at a tile "junction" ;-)


That would be at most 4 tiles at "normal" latitudes.
If it was at the north/south pole, it could span 360 tiles fairly easily.

Dave