[OSM-talk] OSM gets mentioned in KDE4 keynote speech at Google Headquarters

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Jan 23, 2008 11:16 AM, Artem Pavlenko <artem.mapnik at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Yep, you're right, Mercator is no help.
>   BTW, I rendered tiles (for marble) in Lat/Lon aka Geographic, Plate
> Carre, equirectangular,cylindrical equidistant, unprojected etc.
> Still, there are too many re-sampling artifacts. I'll try smaller
> tile sizes ..

At a guess is seems you probably want to have some kind of equal-area
projection since a sphere has the right area, but the geometry is
different (angles of a triangle add up to more than 180 degrees).
Whether Marble can handle that I have no idea.

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