[OSM-dev] South Pole at 0,0 ?

Matthias Julius lists at julius-net.net
Thu Jan 28 05:00:43 GMT 2010


Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 22:05, Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net> wrote:
>> Mercator is defined right up to the poles - the scale just grows
>> larger and larger and at the poles it is infinite.  Our limit of about
>> 85° comes from us wanting a square map.
>
> Would it be possible to switch to a different projection at some latitude?

It certainly would be hard to seamlessly stitch it to the edges of our
mercator map.

Is anyone generating polar maps from OSM data?  (I suspect there is not
a whole lot of data.)

Matthias




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