[OSM-talk] Map rendering, which is not aligned to coordinate axes

[simon at mungewell.org]

> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Linear_maps
>
> No solutions there but at least you know now that OJW has thought about
> this three years ago ;-)

Wouldn't a true linear map stretch the way of interest into a straight
line and distort the location of adjacent ways/nodes to their nearest
tangental position. Lots of math in there to do that....

GPS babel has a filter to do distance from arc:
http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-1.3.5/filter_arc.html

Simon.