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

[Randy Meech]

Thanks for the feedback -- we'll take a look next week and reply to the list.

-Randy

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:57:49 +0100, Richard Mann
> <richard.mann.westoxford at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> The scale bar doesn't change, just the numbers next to it. Looks fine to me.
>
> No, the numbers do not change, they only change when you change the
> zoom level.
> If you click the link <http://open.mapquest.co.uk/>, you have a scale
> of 71 km. If you move the map to the north, the numbers do not change.
> If you zoom out and zoom in (pressing - and + on the zoombar to the
> right), the scale changes to 210 km, then to 71 km. If you then move to
> the equator, the scale stays at 71 km, and again changes to 210 when you
> zoom out and 71 when you zoom in.
>
> That, to me, constitutes no change. And it is incorrect.
>
> Coincidentally, the 71 km bar is equal in length to the length of the
> north border of Equatorial Guinee. Getting the coordinates from OSM I
> get the coast at 9.7755 degrees east and the east border on 11.3434
> east. That's 1.5679 degrees, and with 360 degrees around the globe and
> 40.008 km at the equator (we're talking 2 degrees north here), that
> border is just short of 175 km, which is nowhere near the 71 km that the
> scale bar would suggest.
>
> Tested on FF 3.6.6 and IE 7 on Windows XP.
>
> Regards,
> Maarten
>
>>
>> Richard
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:30:10 +0300, Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> Maybe I was not totally clear: I'm talking about the scale bar (left
>>> bottom) that does not change when zooming in/out using the mousewheel or
>>> when moving the map.
>>>
>>> Maarten
>>>
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