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Wrong plotting of coordinates

Open Rasmus-Riis opened this issue 5 years ago • 0 comments

It seems like there is an issue when you search for coordinates.

Try and search for 56.464166, 10.043333. It puts the center of map / pin several hundred meters from the actual spot.

If you do it by URL:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=56.464166&mlon=10.043333#map=17/56.46328/10.04342

It puts the pin in the correct place.

We have tested it with numerous different coordinates. It is not always that far of as it is in the example above, but it differs slightly almost every time.

Openstreetmap has a tendency to place the pin in a building, when the actual coordinates are outside the building. This renders open street map useless for us, since we want accurate GPS positions.

Rasmus-Riis avatar Feb 04 '20 08:02 Rasmus-Riis