[OSM-talk] Oh look, a scale bar. But...

[Dermot McNally]

On 16/04/2008, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> In message <b5f0f61d0804161037m6eeaa2edu5da05b22be47b0b8 at mail.gmail.com>
>
>           "Dermot McNally" <dermotm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > From what I can tell based on a quick look at the Openlayers
>  > documentation, not only does it support single unit scale bars, that's
>  > actually the default.
>
> It's certainly not the default. I have done nothing other than add
>  a default constructed scale control to the map.

I did say it was a quick look. FWIW, this is the reference i found:

http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Addins/ScaleBar

And as I say, it's great to have one.

> Patches welcome.

Always a reasonable response coming from somebody who's actually done
real work. But maybe we should first see whether people see value in
what I'm describing. In any event, since I've never been near any of
this code, it's unlikely that I'll be able to add value to it any time
soon. However, perhaps someone else has a quicker path to doing so and
will feel motivated.

Cheers,
Dermot