<html><head></head><body>By default OSMAnd shows things which may be of interest to mappers.<br><br>If you don't want to see these notes, you can turn the feature off.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 January 2020 1:18:42 pm AEDT, Warin <61sundowner@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 12/1/20 12:37 pm, Sebastian S. wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">When using OSMAnd for routing I came across the following note: "way <br>has been simplified using a error criteria of 3m" it is usually in <br>green text.<br>Does anyone know what this means, why do we need the note? What <br>purpose does it serve?<br></blockquote><br><br>This is usually from an import of data. The data may have many points <br>(nodes in OSM) that lead to data bloat.<br><br>JOSM has a tool that reduces the number of nodes such that any error <br>will be less than 3 meters from the original information, 'simplify way'.<br><br><br>It may be better to have these as 'comment=*' rather than 'note=*'? They <br>should only be for other mappers to see if they have some concern with <br>the data.<hr>Talk-au mailing list<br>Talk-au@openstreetmap.org<br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au</a><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>