[OSM-talk] db and user statistics update

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Etienne Cherdlu]
> Can anyone explain why a simple spheric model is not sufficient?
> Does it result in cracks somewhere on the planet?  Are lat and lon
> coordinates incorrect for someone's street somewhere?  Is the
> distance between two points distorted in some way?

The latter.  The distance between two points are distorted.  Also,
coordinates in lat/lon do not mark the location they should mark.  I
ran into a problem with OSM trying to pinpoint the GPS location of
DebConf7 in Edinburgh (55.94508 -3.18867), the coordinate in Google
Maps was correct, while the same coordinate in OSM was way off.

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen