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 <md...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:57:49 +0100, Richard Mann > <richard.mann.westoxf...@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 <md...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >>> On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:30:10 +0300, Peteris Krisjanis <pec...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> 2010/7/9 Maarten Deen <md...@xs4all.nl>: >>>>> On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:11:02 +0100, SomeoneElse >>>>> <li...@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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> talk mailing list >>> talk@openstreetmap.org >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
