[OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

Peteris Krisjanis pecisk at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 10:30:10 BST 2010


2010/7/9 Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl>:
> On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:11:02 +0100, SomeoneElse
> <lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 09/07/2010 09:50, David Ellams wrote:
>>> http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/09/aols-mapquest-looks-to-wikipedia-model-for-mapping/
>>>
>>>
>>>    http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
>>
>> Woohoo!  An OSM map with a scale on it!
>
> Yeah, they'll remove it shortly when they notice the bugs:
> - the scale is always the same, on the equator and on the pole (or as
> far to the pole you can get get)
> - the scale does not change when you zoom in or out with the mouse
> scrollwheel.
>
> The last bug is especially aggravated by the fact that for zooming
> there are 3 options (doubleclick, zoomwheel, zoombar) of which 2 work
> and for zooming out there are only 2 options (zoomwheel, zoombar) of
> which only 1 works.
> And most of the times, I don't use the zoombar. I never use it when I
> zoom in only one or two levels.
>

What a heck you are talking about? Every type of zoom works for me
without problems, FF3.6

Cheers,
Peter.




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