[OSM-dev] Scale markings on maps

[John McKerrell]

On 6 Oct 2009, at 14:49, John Smith wrote:

> 2009/10/6 John Robert Peterson <jrp.crs at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On a very closly related matter, is there any way to adjust things  
>> so that a
>> decent scale is displayed -- so often I find that I want to know the
>> distance between 2 points that are 3/4 of the width of the screen  
>> appart --
>
> As for distance between points there are some site, I can't think of
> them off the top of my head, that let you click on a map and it will
> give you the distance.

Interestingly enough, on the Multimap API I originally did a scale bar  
that used up basically all remaining space until someone pointed out  
that they're usually "thumb" width so that you can use your thumb  
multiple times to find a width.

John
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