Robert Scott wrote: > On Sunday 15 March 2009, Stefan de Konink wrote: >> You can extend it to NURBS without breaking tools ;) Think about the >> control point approximation ;) So every embedded device that isn't fast >> or doesn't have a fpu will use the ugly linear version, > > And more people will start entering data designed as NURBS, leading to fewer > vertices, meaning that sooner or later, we have data that is just plain > geographically wrong when interpreted normally.
It might be that you miss the point. There is no reason to be geographically 'right' at the interpretation phase, it only should be stored geographically right. You might check any tiny routing device, that is never geographically right; all approximations. Stefan _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
