[OSM-dev] Ways with 40k nodes, was: osmosis pgsql schema

[Simon Ward]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 04:53:46PM +0000, Shaun McDonald wrote:
> Actually you will find that having a limit of 2000 nodes in a way will  
> make osm more scaleable. It will make it easier to use osm data on  
> mobile devices, and on devices with low memory. As it is if you try and 
> edit a large way in one of the current editors, you will find it very 
> slow.

That’s why the ability to deal with partial ways was suggested.

Simon
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