[OSM-dev] Scale markings on maps

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Tue Oct 6 16:00:08 BST 2009


On 06/10/09 15:52, andrzej zaborowski wrote:

> The scale bar should only be displayed at higher zoom levels, say z>
> 6 because there the distance between the two lower corners of the
> screen and two upper corners is only minimally different, at some
> point the difference becomes smaller than the pixel size.  And it
> should resize as you pan north&  south.

We know all this. What we don't have is an implementation of a scale bar 
for OpenLayers that resizes as you pan.

If you all spent less time blathering on about what we already know and 
diverted a bit of that time to implementing such a scale bar then maybe 
it might get put back on the map...

Tom

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