[OSM-talk] Mysterious straight line from UK to Italy

Andy Robinson Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Jul 11 20:08:01 BST 2007


Barnett, Phillip wrote:
>Sent: 11 July 2007 6:58 PM
>To: Talk Openstreetmap
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Mysterious straight line from UK to Italy
>
>Has anybody else noticed the apparent road from the UK to Italy (and
>possibly beyond)?
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>
>It's visible in Mapnik, but not Osmarender on the slippy map, for instance
>at
>http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.109927563435576&lon=0.4032842261281507
>4&zoom=10 where you can see it going from NW to SE. No such data is visible
>in JOSM, so it appears to be an artefact in Mapnik.
>
>

Clearly you haven't followed your Roman history lessons about how they
reached Peterborough ;-)

Cheers (very tongue in cheek)

Andy

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