On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 05:24:52AM +1000, John Smith wrote: > 2010/1/6 Jochen Topf <joc...@remote.org>: > > Hi! > > > > The OSM Inspector (tools.geofabrik.de/osmi) just got a new "Highways" view. > > It shows problems with highway types, names, refs and some other tags such > > as oneway and maxspeed. > > > > http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=highways
I guess you are talking about the geometry view and not the highway view. > It still show's long ways as a potential problem, in Australia that > isn't the case since some segments are pretty long/straight even: > > For example, the highway across the Nullarbor is supposedly the > longest, straightest highway in the world. Long ways are a potential problem if you have long segments with no nodes in it. One problem is when you draw a small part of the map that has a line going through it but no nodes in it (because they are all outside), the line might not show because the software doesn't recognize this. You can run into this when using Osmarender for instance. Another problem ist the projection. Straight lines on the earth are not necessary straight lines in some projections. They should show up as curves. But if you don't have enought supporting nodes, you don't get nice curves. This view warnes you that you might run into those kinds of problems. It doesn't mean that your data is wrong. It means that in some cases your data might not be interpreted in the right way. Jochen -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
