[OSM-talk] Move the Map

Matt Amos zerebubuth at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 17:54:56 BST 2009


On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Dave Stubbs<osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk> wrote:
> 2009/6/18 Russ Nelson <russ at cloudmade.com>:
>> On Jun 18, 2009, at 3:07 AM, Joe Richards wrote:
>>>> Maybe http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0&lon=-0&zoom=2 would be more
>>>> diplomatic, but then we should be using a map that did not make the
>>>> Uk, India, Brazil and New Zealand all the same size. <snip>
>>
>> Maybe we should be using a projection whose critical data-preserving
>> quality is the number of OSM contributors in the area.  Don't like the
>> look of the map??  Edit it and mark your home!
>
> You just end up with a very big map of germany :-)

like this one? http://blog.cloudmade.com/2008/11/07/wheres-interesting/

cheers,

matt




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