[OSM-talk] North Pole

[Heiko Jacobs]

Peter Childs schrieb:
> Why is the North Pole at 0,0?
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=0&lon=0&zoom=16&layers=000BFTF
> 
> and why at higher zoom levels does it appear as a Car Park. I can't
> see any data but it seams to appear in all the different renderer s.
> 
> Last Time I checked you could not park your car in the middle of the Atlantic.

We just had this discussion at talk-de some days before...
There is an North Pole at lat=90 lon=9 in OSM data.
I assumed, that data outside lat=-85...85 (and lon=-180---180)
is put at 0 instead of x? Does anyone knows more precise,
how API and renderers handle this dort of elements?

Mueck