[OSM-talk] calculating lon/lat bounds from tilename

[Matthias Julius]

Jon Burgess <jburgess777 at googlemail.com> writes:

> Would the proper solution be to provide OSM tiles in a latlong
> projection? Mapnik is certainly capable of rendering these. 

What do you mean with a latlong projection?  A projection where each
degree has the same spacing all over the map and no matter the
lattitude?  That is getting more and more distorted the farther you
get from the equator.

Matthias