[OSM-talk] Freemap update

[nick at hogweed.org]

>
> Displaying mercator projected maps:
> This is what OpenLayers can do, and I'll have a demo of the OSM data
> with this within the next week or so.
>
> The former is the way that OSM currently works. The latter is the way
> that everything else in the world works.

Out of interest how does this work? Would you have to store all the data in 
Mercator-projected coordinates?

Thanks,
Nick