Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > I believe also that the scale bar is not right. Distorsion is > one thing, it makes Sweden (and Finland) to look visually > ridiculous on the map,
At the deep zoom levels (zoom=6 and higher numbers), Sweden and Finland don't look "large", because you don't see other countries on the same screen. At these deep zoom levels, the difference in scale between the top and bottom of the screen is also small. Google Maps uses the same map projection, as do all tile-based online maps. The projection is not the problem. Google Maps shows the correct scale and it changes as you pan north and south within the same zoom level. See for example http://maps.google.com/?ll=57,17&z=6 At zoom=5 and lower numbers, where you see whole continents or the whole world, Sweden and Finland look large in comparison to Britain or Spain. That is sad. Perhaps a different projection could be used for these zoom levels? It would make the whole system a lot more complicated. Google Earth shows you a globe as you zoom out, instead of the flat map in Google Maps. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
