[OSM-talk] labs.mc.com osm update

[Artem Pavlenko]

On 10 May 2007, at 11:31, Martin Spott wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> Jon Burgess wrote:
>
>> The latest osm2pgsql outputs data in mercator format instead of  
>> latlong
>
> I don't grasp the benefit of this change for the current use - would
> you explain it to me (and probably to others as well) ?
>

Hi Martin,
This was my idea :) . Well, it speeds up tile rendering a bit. Jon  
might have some numbers.
Perhaps, projecting coordinates into Mercator should be  (is?) optional.

Cheers,
Artem

> 	Martin.
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Artem Pavlenko
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