[Ambassadors] Some ambassador map corrections

Mathieu Bridon bochecha at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jun 24 16:31:45 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 00:21 +0800, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 02:34 -0700, Dan Mashal wrote:
> > It's a +/- thing.
> 
> Not necessarily, it could be more complicated than that.
> 
> There are various coordinates system in use in the world, depending
> mostly on the country (but not only, some countries can decide to change
> their standard coordinate system from time to time).
> 
> So for example, take a point somewhere in the East of France. It could
> have different coordinates depending on the used projection system:
> - 48°35´59.9" / 7°44´12.2" in WGS84 Greenwich
> - 2413822m / 998137m in NTF extended Lambert II
> 
> (note how they don't even use the same units)
> 
> So IMHO, what's really needed to locate yourself properly on the
> ambassadors map is to know what is the projection system used by the
> map.
> 
> Firebug tells me it seems to be "EPSG:4326", so that's the system people
> need to search their coordinates in.
> 
> Alternatively, it is trivial with the OSM API to display the coordinates
> (in the right projection system) of the point under the mouse pointer,
> so that ambassadors can quickly know what to enter in FAS.
> 
> Patches attached, with a bit of cleanup.

Hehe, What did I say about projection systems being confusing?

Turns out I broke everything with my previous patch... because I failed
at using the right system. :)

Here are the actual patches which make everything work.


-- 
Mathieu
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