[OSM-talk] db and user statistics update

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On 1/19/07, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
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> [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.


When I look at this on both OSM and Google I can't see any significant
difference.  What method did you use to show that there is a difference?



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