[OSM-dev] Max nodes in a way?

[Colin Smale]

Hi,

I am working on some gigantic GPX files with hundreds of thousands of 
points, representing admin boundary polygons. I'm sure these huge ways 
will break something or cause performance to be dreadful, so I am 
planning to split the enormous polygons into a number of ways and tie 
them together in a relation.

What's a reasonable value to assume for the maximum number of nodes in a 
way? 1000? 10000?

Colin