[OSM-talk] Freemap in Mercator

Dean Earley dean at earlsoft.co.uk
Wed Jul 5 01:27:08 BST 2006


Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> http://london.freemap.in/july.mercator.html
> 
> A bit slower, not fully optimized yet, but the biggest drain is the
> satellite cache -- I'll prebuild that soon, and loading the vector data
> on top of that is simple.
> 
> The Permalinks are obviously not in degrees lat/lon, but that math
> shouldn't be too hard to include in the OpenLayers.Control.Permalink so
> that we can link out to the applet in the way it expects.. 
> 
> I'll publish a tutorial on how to create cartographic styles tomorrow or
> the next day, so that all you people telling me 'the colors are wrong!'
> can give me lines of mapfile to fix it ;)
> 
> Any non-speed, non-cartographic complaints?

The "measure distance" feature doesn't appear to work correctly (unless 
the two lanes of a dual carriage way really ar 14 thousand Km apart...)

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