[OSM-talk] Slippy map suggestions

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 02:21:43PM +0000, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 01:22:43AM +0000, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
> >> When in the UK, it would be nice to see OS Grid
> >> coordinates as well, and similar for other countries with their own
> >> systems, although I guess writing a co-ordinate conversion routine in
> >> Javascript might be hard.
> > 
> > Converting the coordinates isn't hard. Converting them to something
> > useful to everyone is. If OSM is targeting being a global project
> > (rather than  UK one as it was, mostly, for quite a while) then I think
> > that using OS Grid coords is probably not the best idea.
> > 
> > I think a lat/lon is the right way to go here, until we have
> > openstreetmap.co.uk :)
> 
> No, what I meant was when your mouse pointer is over the UK it would be
> nice to see an OS grid ref in addition to the Lat/Lon ref, not instead
> of it. If your mouse is over another country that has a similar system,
> it would show that country's system. If your mouse is over the sea, or a
> country without a system, those numbers would disappear. I wasn't trying
> to impose the UK system on the whole world.

Sure, I understand that, but most of the world doesn't have a system
like that, and special casing the countries that do seems preferential
(to me, living in the US, where there's not a useful system like the OS
grid system).

> Another thought I had, and just added to trac is an smooth animated
> zoom, like when you double click in Google maps. Of course, actually
> achieving this may require a complete rewrite...

Ballistic zoom would be hard, but not impossible, but it's another thing
I'm not personally interested in. (I did see your ticket though :)) 
Feel free to bring it to the OpenLayers dev list to try and convince
someone it's important enough to work on :)

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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