[Openstreetmap] what is scale?

Immanuel Scholz immanuel.scholz at gmx.de
Sat Sep 17 18:28:50 BST 2005


Hi,

looking at this (probably most requested) map:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit/view-map.html?lat=51.526447&lon=-0.14746371&scale=6.6666666e-05

I wonder, where the parameter "scale" comes from? How it is calculated?
What unit it this? Meter per pixel? ;-)


Ciao, Imi.






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