[Xastir-Dev] aprsworld.net maps

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, James Jefferson wrote:

> > Does anybody have any guess why this is happening? The image returned by
> > maps.aprsworld.net should be unprojected. Is xastir expecting a
> > projected map?
>
> I forgot. When zoomed to level 1 the maps match perfectly.

We use a different scale for X and Y, which changes from 1:1 as you
go away from the equator.

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