<div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/2 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avarab@gmail.com">avarab@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Richard Fairhurst <<a href="mailto:richard@systemed.net">richard@systemed.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> I would commend this forced simplification to the JOSM devs. Ways are<br>
> automatically split after an interval of n seconds.<br>
<br>
</div>Unlike Potlatch JOSM is a powertool. It shouldn't force you to do anything.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>wait for potlatch 2.0 ;-)<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Recently I traced a zigzag road in Greece from a GPX track in JOSM by...<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/40783985/history" target="_blank"></a><br>
I tried to simplify the track using the utilsplugin but that made the<br>
road way more inaccurate than my trace was. What was previously a<br>
smooth curve around a bend turned into a few crude points that would<br>
have looked bad on the map.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>+1, the main issue is that no piece of software but just you know where there was a curve, which line was straight and where it was really ondulated. I personally care about those details, and while I would like to represent a straight line with just 2 points (and not 3 or 4), I would also like to have quite a lot of points in curves to represent them well.<br>
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We would do well to remember that not everyone wants to spend an hour<br>
to perfectly trace some way in the middle of nowhere. </blockquote><div><br>perfectly true for the middle of nowhere but horrible in densly builtup areas.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Sometimes<br>
importing an almost raw GPX track is quick, good enough and perfectly<br>
appropriate.<br>
<br>
We can always fix the data later.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>true, but what I sometimes face is the opposite: traced for some time very precisely some road/footway till someone thinks: hey, it would be enough to have this represented by 8 nodes, and applies some algo-magic to it.<br>
<br>cheers,<br>Martin<br>