On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com>wrote:
> If mappers in Europe and North America think that z18 doesn't show enough > detail, then imagine what it must be like for mappers who are located > nearer to the equator. Because of the Mercator projection we use, higher > latitudes have a larger scale than places near the equator. > Interesting. Didn't come to think of the scale but referred to the North / South difference meaning that in Germany/Finland/USA/etc there usually is at least 10m between two POIs where as in Haiti and a huge number of other counties in the "South" there isn't necessarily even 5. ... The scale issue makes it even more obvious that especially in the South there is a clear need for higher zoom levels. -Jaakko
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