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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi Nick,<br><br>I think we still can improve distorted shapes, but lines<br>are pretty to close to what is possible.<br>I think of the Garmin format as a bed of nails.<br>Near the equator the nails have a distance of ~2.3 m<br>with resolution 24. If you go north or south, the horizontal distance <br>decreases.<br>Drawing a line on this bed of nails is like<br>connecting some of the nails with a rubber band.<br><br>Shapes are more complicated than lines because <br>you may not want to produce gaps between them<br>in some cases, e.g. with buildings.<br><br>Gerd<br><br><div>> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 01:10:41 -0700<br>> From: osm@pinns.co.uk<br>> To: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk<br>> Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Distorted lines<br>> <br>> I know this has been discussed a lot and it is annoying to see these<br>> distortions but having seen Garmin's City Navigator maps with the same<br>> problem, I fear there isn't much more we can expect of mkgmap...?<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> --<br>> View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Distorted-lines-tp5831842p5831896.html<br>> Sent from the Mkgmap Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mkgmap-dev mailing list<br>> mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk<br>> http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev<br></div> </div></body>
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