[OSM-newbies] Miles and kilometers in scale?

[Matt Williams]

On 5 December 2014 at 11:03, Xan <dxpublica at telefonica.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I observe that something strange happens with graphical scale:
>
>   * In some maps, such this http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=10/39.5681/2.6985&layers=H, you could see that the km scale is greater than miles scale
>   * But in other ones, such that http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=4/-26.15/123.66&layers=H, the km scale is lesser than miles scale
>
> Isn't it an incongruence? Is it a bug?

The first one is _10_ km against _5_ miles.

Matt