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

higgy at bandnet.org higgy at bandnet.org
Sat Jun 23 12:15:41 BST 2007


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> But for North/South, you would need the upper/lower latitude of every
> row of tiles that you are using - because the scale changes.
> So the problem is a bit more complex than you might have thought.
>
> higgy at bandnet.org wrote:
>> Unfortunately I never bothered to make the map browser very intuitive
>> (worksforme) and I think there's a bug in my lat/lon conversion because
>> my
>> position always seems to be slightly off when actually using the map. I
>
> Higgy: Maybe the above described issue is your problem as well?

Could very well be. It's far more noticable at lower zooms and it only
seems to be wrong vertically, which fits with what you describe. I'll have
to look into a fix, I think.

Cheers,





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