[josm-dev] pecision of mouseclick in josm - may be notjsom-specific
Sebastian Klein
bastikln at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 1 23:04:10 GMT 2011
petr at nejedli.cz wrote:
> <bastikln at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> If you save the layer to file, it keeps the exact values. However, on
>> upload the coordinates will be rounded to server precision, which is
>> (IIRC, at least near the equator) worse than 5cm.
>
> Actually, the server precision is 1e-7 degree, which makes about 1.1cm
> on the equator and less elsewhere.
Good to know... I think we could get this value down to 0.642cm if use
the full 64 bit and don't skip the range from 180*10^7 to 2^31
(longitude) and from 85.1*10^7 to 2^31 (latitude).
Sebastian
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