[OSM-talk] Square gridlines appeared on slippy map

[Jon Burgess]

On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 15:42 +0000, Ed Avis wrote:
> On the OSM front page the map now has what look like square gridlines, making
> Greenland look made out of graph paper.  Is this a permanent change?
> 
> The pattern of the grid is square throughout the map, which doesn't match the
> Mercator projection, so what are they intended to show?

No. It is what happens if you generate the coastline shapefiles with the
default parameters. I have fixed it to use the larger overlap but it
might take a couple of days for them to re-render.

	Jon