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Have a scale visible on the map #236

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openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 2 comments
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Have a scale visible on the map #236

openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 2 comments
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Reporter: dean[at]earlsoft.co.uk
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 4.52pm, Thursday, 1st June 2006]

It would be VERY useful to have a scale (meters, degrees, miles, etc customisable?) so when zoomed in, we have a rough idea of the distance between two nodes.
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Author: immanuel.scholz[at]gmx.de
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.24am, Monday, 12th June 2006]

This has now been requested several times.

The problem of this is, that the scale is not the same for scale depends on the Projection mode.

As example, in Mercator projection it is different for X and Y direction. Worse, for Y direction, it is non-linear.

Maybe I'll add an optional (hidable) ruler to the top and left border of the main map.

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Author: dean[at]earlsoft.co.uk
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.04pm, Wednesday, 12th July 2006]

Well, the scale at the centre would be best bet (maybe hiding it when it gets stupidly large?)
Most people tend to work at high zoom levels anyway.

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