-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio wrote: | > In Mercator distance is constant independent of orientation, isn't it? | | I don't know what you mean exactly. | | If you use JOSM with the Mercator projection and draw a perfect circle | in the North of Sweden, you are actually drawing a horizontal ellipse | (east-west oriented) in the real world.
Are you sure you are talking about the Mercator projection? AFAIK, if the circle is small, it will remain a circle. In the mercator projection, as you move away from the equator the lines move further apart. The amount of distortion will depend on how large the circle is and how far it is from the equator. Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH6XxCz+aYVHdncI0RAuDDAJ0fcIMrEzf2AiCo4GDdlU8hNqPgZACgsS9f RY3fyn3ViDMe+c4ETLL9z5Y= =8DFj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
