[OSM-talk] New "Highways" view in OSM Inspector

[John Smith]

2010/1/9 Martin Siegel <martin.siegel at sdas.de>:
> AFAIK this is not correct. First of all the PoV of Mercator projection
> is not going through the center of the earth. It's a somehow stretched
> cylindrical projection and it goes through the north-south-axis.
> The way it is stretched causes that angles on the earth are the same as
> on the map. I'm not completely sure, but I believe the only straight
> lines that correlate between earth's surface and Mercator projected maps
> are the equator and all great circles parallel to the meridians.

Not quite, it's about 45 degrees north/south is in correct
proportions, everything else gets stretched.