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Reporter: axelboldt[at]yahoo.com [Submitted to the original trac issue database at 12.03am, Tuesday, 5th January 2010]
Currently, OSM displays maps with a Mercator projection, just like Google Maps. This projection distorts distances at high/low latitudes. It was designed for fixed paper maps, not for scrollable online maps.
Google Earth uses a different projection: the vertical view down from a satellite. This projection treats all points of the globe equally. Distortion is rather intuitive and everywhere the same. Zoom level directly corresponds to the size of the viewed part of Earth's surface. There is no difference between vertical and horizontal distances.
It would be nice to have an option to view the OSM data in Google Earth's projection.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
Reporter: axelboldt[at]yahoo.com
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 12.03am, Tuesday, 5th January 2010]
Currently, OSM displays maps with a Mercator projection, just like Google Maps. This projection distorts distances at high/low latitudes. It was designed for fixed paper maps, not for scrollable online maps.
Google Earth uses a different projection: the vertical view down from a satellite. This projection treats all points of the globe equally. Distortion is rather intuitive and everywhere the same. Zoom level directly corresponds to the size of the viewed part of Earth's surface. There is no difference between vertical and horizontal distances.
It would be nice to have an option to view the OSM data in Google Earth's projection.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: