[Potlatch-dev] Lat vs Latp

[Steve Bennett]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Richard Fairhurst
<richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> In other words, latp->y co-ordinate is just a simple matter of
> multiplication, just like lon->x co-ordinate (in the Mercator projection, at
> any rate).
>
> If you didn't project it then things would look squished and you wouldn't be
> able to use tile backgrounds.

Ah, thanks. That explains why latp is used almost everywhere over lat.

Steve