There's also a Slack group, where I can invite you. Some people will still see messages there, but mostly it's quiet.

@mapcenter.com yup I use either "maptime" or "Maptime" without capitalizing the T.

And yes, I think we can still accept PRs on the Maptime github, and will happily add you as a contributor to the github org.

OpenFreeMap uses unmodified OpenMapTiles schema tiles, so possibly OMT needs to be updated to parse feet correctly. But I can't tell where in their SQL schemas they are doing the parsing. In any case, just editing the data to be in meters is probably the safest, as you've done.

Of course, we cartographers will never stop sharing this clip from the West Wing on occasions such as these:

"Why are we changing maps?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqC...

#CorrectTheMap

The newer Equal Earth Projection is a much better alternative to Mercator.

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