https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439493
--- Comment #6 from Karl Ove Hufthammer <k...@huftis.org> --- (In reply to animtim from comment #4) > I went for EPSG:3857 as it's the one used by virtually all online map > providers, and as it's easier to use the same for all the countries. BTW, EPSG:3857 (‘Web Mercator’ – a Mercator projection that pretends that the Earth is a sphere instead of an ellipsoid) is used for online maps because it is easy to use for *global maps* that are *based on tiles*. It’s not used because it’s a good representation of the way the Earth actually looks. For example, in EPSG:3857 Greenland looks to be about the same size as Africa. In reality, Africa has an area that is about 14 times (!) that of Greenland. That said EPSG:3857 doesn’t look *too* bad when used for ‘local’ (large scale) maps, especially for countries that are not too tall and not too far from the equator. Also, BTW, EPSG:3857 is not used for the global map in GCompris. A much more sensible projection is used there. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
