[Openstreetmap] what is scale?

[SteveC]

* @ 17/09/05 05:28:50 PM immanuel.scholz at gmx.de wrote:
> 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? ;-)

Close. Degrees per pixel, IIRC.

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/