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Originally Posted by Pisces
I know, but you are playing this game. And the above doesn't hold in that. This game is flat. As said before, in the game the degree grid is rectangular with 120km interval in both directions. The developers of Silent Hunter 3/4 wanted to make their work easy.
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Good points. It's hard to tell if an actual chart projection like a mercator was employed or if it was some other rough approximation. I understand that they would want to avoid the whole issue of great circle routes versus rhumb line over large distances. I haven't actually measured the latitude scale, but it seems odd that there would be that much discrepancy with the actual value. All pretty much irrelevant anyway. I apologize for my pedantic reply.
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