On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote:
> Someone said that taking the area into account should improve the results > for Indonesia; either I did something wrong ior the opposite is the case - > Indonesia featured at #23 before and has now dropped completely off the > list. > That was me. I was mistaken. For a given zoom level in Mercator projection, a tile in an equatorial area shows more real-world area than in a more northern or southern latitudes. I actually confused the land area with scale: a tile in an equatorial area has a smaller scale than in a more northern or southern latitudes. So land area is inversely proportional to map scale.
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