[OSM-talk] bounding box requests, and failures

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Nov 28, 2007 6:11 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us> wrote:
> but i'm actually surprised that _either_ request works, since both
> ask for over .35 degrees of lon/lat, which clearly exceeds the 0.25 listed
> on the wiki page.

The 0.25 is (IIRC) calibrated to the latitude you're at. So at the
equator it's exactly 0.25 but as you get further north/south the limit
is higher (otherwise very far north even very small areas would never
be able to be downloaded...)

Have a ncie day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/