[OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

[Peter Miller]

On 23 Nov 2009, at 16:58, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:

> El Lunes, 23 de Noviembre de 2009, Richard Fairhurst escribió:
>> Potlatch now lets you zoom in as far as zoom level 23. Previous
>> versions only went up to z19, and even then with some loss of
>> positional accuracy.
>
> I can already see the headlines of Potlatch 2.0:
>
> "Potlatch, now with more resolution than the real world!"

The excellent book 'Map Addict' muses about the ultimate 1:1 map  
quoting from a story of 'exactitude in science' from 1946 as follows:  
"and so the College of Cartography evolved a Map of the Empire that  
was the same scale as the empire and that coincided with it point for  
point... succeeding generations came to judge a map of such magnitude  
cumbersome, and not without irreverence they abandoned it to the  
rigours of the sun and rain'

I am sure that Potlatch 2.x will never be abandoned to the rigours of  
the sun and rain (even if Potlatch 1.x does meet that fait ;) )

A thoroughly recommend book. The only heath warning is that the guy  
loves the Ordnance Survey and can't bring himself to even mention OSM  
- he nearly does but clearly OSM is not a proper map to his mind.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Map-Addict-Mike-Parker/dp/0007300840

Great work Richard.



Regards,


Peter


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