[OpenLayers-Users] Scale Control rounding low-valued scales

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:48:36PM -0500, Schuyler Erle wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 16:53 +0000, Stuart Eve wrote:
> >
> >  From our point of view we deal with digitised archaeological plans 
> > which are sometimes drawn at 1:20 or 1:10 (we are using metres as the 
> > units not centimetres). Therefore rounding to the nearest integer for 
> > scale is totally fine for us - it would be nice I guess to get right 
> > down to 1:1! Can you explain why the browser isn't the best for 
> > centimetre accuracy? The MousePosition control seems to work well and I 
> > have checked the coordinates of various features against my desktop GIS 
> > and it seems right on... In fact Openlayers is working really well 
> > (except for the scale read-out) we are loving it!
> 
> I've applied Christopher's patch for this issue (ticket #503) to trunk.
> However, I think it's a little late to include this in the 2.3 release,
> unless folks think otherwise. (It *is* a bug fix, but a pretty minor
> one, and 2.3 is already long overdue.)

Agreed. Only regressions between 2.2 and 2.3 should make it into an RC
(or blockers for usage, which this is not :))

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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