Would be nice if the farthest zoom out wasn't Mercator.
There are many good reasons for choosing mercator, the best one being that it is mostly conformal.
Yes, while zoomed in that property is useful, zoomed out less so.
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are many good reasons for choosing mercator, the best one being that it is mostly conformal.
Yes, while zoomed in that property is useful, zoomed out less so.
You can't really switch projections mid-zoom, because the tile coordinates wouldn't match and you'd find yourself in entirely the wrong place.
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#13Nice effort, but still needs a lot of work. This view of the western US picks out four coastal cities worthy of mention: "Tijuana" (fine), "Los Angele" (sic!), "San Jose" (err..) and "Calgary" (wat). No San Francisco, no Seattle, no Vancouver...
https://maps.wikimedia.org/#4/40.15/-93.38
Scripts are also all over the place. Japan is Japanese only, China is Chinese only, India is English, Bangladesh is Bengali, Pakistan is partly Urdu and English, the Arab countries are totally inconsistent...
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#14Would be nice if the farthest zoom out wasn't Mercator.
TIL it's actually Web Merkator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Mercator
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#15Nice effort, but still needs a lot of work. This view of the western US picks out four coastal cities worthy of mention: "Tijuana" (fine), "Los Angele" (sic!), "San Jose" (err..) and "Calgary" (wat). No San Francisco, no Seattle, no Vancouver... https://maps.wikimedia.org/#4/40.15/-93.38 Scripts are also all over the place. Japan is Japanese only, China is Chinese only, India is English, Bangladesh is Bengali, Pakist…
Seems worth noting, it does have the right name for Los Angeles — the label is just running into Phoenix.
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#16Nice effort, but still needs a lot of work. This view of the western US picks out four coastal cities worthy of mention: "Tijuana" (fine), "Los Angele" (sic!), "San Jose" (err..) and "Calgary" (wat). No San Francisco, no Seattle, no Vancouver... https://maps.wikimedia.org/#4/40.15/-93.38 Scripts are also all over the place. Japan is Japanese only, China is Chinese only, India is English, Bangladesh is Bengali, Pakist…
I'm guessing it's because San Jose and Calgary have over 1M population -- the cities of SFO and Seattle proper do not.
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#17I have tried one or two Google Maps mashups, but never bothered seriously because its ... Well not worth the effort learning on my free time how to use something that is not free. But openstreetmap and Wikipedia - how can I resist.
Ok folks, let's look at this properly - you are going to get my donation this time round, and in five years google will look worried and in ten the goto mapping solution will be a free Wikipedia service.
Open always wins in the end.
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#18In case you're wondering what this is about: the scale of Wikipedia makes it difficult to just drop in a third-party OSM tiling service, so they're rolling their own map rendering process using OSM data. This is a beta of the rendered tiles, displayed inside Leaflet. If you're into maps and this kind of thing, I highly recommend checking out LocalWiki ( https://localwiki.org ) too!
Is their rendering process documented anywhere?
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#20I have tried one or two Google Maps mashups, but never bothered seriously because its ... Well not worth the effort learning on my free time how to use something that is not free. But openstreetmap and Wikipedia - how can I resist. Ok folks, let's look at this properly - you are going to get my donation this time round, and in five years google will look worried and in ten the goto mapping solution will be a free Wik…
I wonder if they're going to funnel contributions back to OSM.