[OSM-dev] Scale of downloaded images seems to vary.

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 01/11/2018 12:44 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> note that this will always only be approximate as it will vary across
> your sheet of paper (getting smaller towards the equator and bigger
> towards the poles in the mercator projection we use), so you would want
> to say something like "the scale in the centre of your sheet will be 1 :
> 25000")

Also, "this applies to the horizontal scale, the vertical scale is
another matter altogether" ;)

Bye
Frederik

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