On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 08:03:11 +0200 Florian Lohoff <f...@zz.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 11:19:46AM -0400, James wrote: > > No they shouldn't, mapping roads in northern Canada, your bbox can > > become quite large quickly as mapping logging roads/dirt roads is > > quick and easy, but span over multiple kms > > The point is that the line/way of that road should also not span tens > of kms. You should break that up every couple of kilometers. > > Otherwise this is prone to break one day or the other. And its simply > inefficient. Every time you touch that road you invalidate hundrets > of tiles. Come out to the rural United States sometime. It's not unreasonable for a road to span tens of kilometers between intersections. (And a one-square-kilometer limit on landuse is also unreasonable: the most common farm shape is a circle one mile in diameter. The second-most-common is a square one mile on a side.) -- Mark _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk