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

[Anthony]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Patrick Kilian <osm at petschge.de> wrote:

> > > THAT depends on your definition of "straight line".
> > I suppose, but it'd have to be a pretty contrived definition of
> > "straight line" to be equivalent to Spherical Mercator, would it not?
> I think that line that are straight in mercator projections are
> loxodroms. But I'm not 100% sure about that.
>

Hmm, seems you are right about that.  Very cool.

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Egil Hjelmeland
<privat at egil-hjelmeland.no>wrote:
> I think it does not hurt to define the exact meaning of a line-segment
> in OSM. And I think that great circle (in wgs84) is the natural
> choice, in stead of defining line to be straight relative to some
> arbitrary projection.

I don't know.  The "WGS84" part is pretty arbitrary.
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