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<p>On 2020-02-13 00:15, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:</p>
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<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">Il giorno 13 feb 2020, alle ore 00:05, Colin Smale <<a href="mailto:colin.smale@xs4all.nl">colin.smale@xs4all.nl</a>> ha scritto:<br /><br /> Locations are stored in OSM as pairs of {lat,lon} and I assume these are both 64-bit floats in the database.</blockquote>
<br /> AFAIK they are stored as integers (shifting the decimals)<br /><br /></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">If so then then my comments about preserving precision still apply to all "client" software and I bet the majority uses float. Then an innocent update to a tag on a node can end up unintentionally moving the location slightly, losing precision.</div>
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