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<body>Thanks all, I will probably have a look at OSMAnd settings as a first step.<br><br>When editing the note don't bother me too much.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 January 2020 9:31:33 pm AEDT, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz@tutanota.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>12 Jan 2020, 03:18 by 61sundowner@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On 12/1/20 12:37 pm, Sebastian S. wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>When using OSMAnd for routing I came across the following note: "way has been simplified using a error criteria of 3m" it is usually in green text.<br></div><div>Does anyone know what this means, why do we need the note? What purpose does it serve?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This is usually from an import of data. The data may have many points (nodes in OSM) that lead to data bloat.<br></div><div><br></div><div>JOSM has a tool that reduces the number of nodes such that any error will be less than 3 meters from the original information, 'simplify way'.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>It may be better to have these as 'comment=*' rather than 'note=*'? They should only be for other mappers to see if they have some concern with the data.<br></div></blockquote><div>I think that place for such notes is a changeset history. Is it maybe really old import<br></div><div>before changesets were added?<br></div><div><br></div><div>I would delete such notes and have changeset with <br></div><div>"original way geometry was simplified some time ago, unnecessary nodes were deleted"<br></div><div><br></div>
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