[OSM-talk] How inaccurate was the mapnik distance/scale marker?

[Richard Weait]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Egil Hjelmeland
<privat at egil-hjelmeland.no> wrote:
> Dave F. wrote:
>> So one of the mapnik guys could implement it quite easily then?
>>
> I don't think it is related to mapnik. It is the javascript code served
> by the web-site that wraps up the map rendered by mapnik, osmarender or
> what so ever. It is part of the javascript code running in your browser
> which handles panning, zooming and selection of map-layer. If you are
> thinking of the map on openstreetmap.org, that would have be done by the
> maintainers of that site.

Egil, perhaps you would contribute your Mercator Scaleline to OpenLayers?
http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/FilingTickets