[OSM-dev] [josm-dev] Problem with large changeset

[Andy Allan]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:10 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 July 2010 18:54, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> suggests* that double results are printed to (a maximum of) 9
>> significant figures, which is fine for latitude and fine if all your
>> testing longitudes cover, say, UK and Germany.
>
> You do realise, regardless of the latitude, anything more than 6dp is
> beyond the kind of accuracy that is achievable by most people most of
> the time, right?

Of course, but the OSM API records to a certain number of WGS84
decimal places, and so cgimap should report the same. Discussions of
whether 7 decimal places is too many (most times I've heard it
discussed some people have asked for more) is something entirely
different.

Cheers,
Andy