On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Nop wrote: > Some people mentioned that the default settings of these tools are very > agressive - this is true and a more lenient approach might produce much > better results. But then, I have not seen any options to change this (in > JOSM). > It was in "advanced preferences". Can't find it right now
> But on the other hand, there's some areas where you need those tools. > During my mapping I have found two areas where the way were hideously > over-defined. When ways have 10 or 20 times more nodes than required to > show their none-too-complex form or when nodes are set in 2m distances > it appears that someone has just uploaded raw GPS traces. This makes > those areas nearly unusable as even a very modest bounding box will > exeed the 50k nodes limit. In these cases, simplify way is your good > friend. > I concur I found about 350 -400 km of highway uploaded (twice) with points at one per second at 100kmh travel speed Once uploaded and made into a way, and then the way deleted without removing the points, then uploaded again and while we have editors that allow that sort of default behaviour, then we need simplifying tools > Eventually, in an anarchic open source society like OSM you can't take > away a tool anyway, so don't even try. But it is definitely worth > refining and pointing out proper and improper uses. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk