[OSM-dev] ogr2osm coordinate precision

[Paul Norman]

On 2014-06-30 2:08 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> Because the API returns nodes with only 7 decimal places, would you
> recommend the use of --sigificant-digits=7 when the resulting OSM data
> is intended for updating existing data in OSM
No. If you are doing anything with the data but a simple upload, you 
want the higher resolution
> (using Replace Geometry in
> JOSM)?
I don't imagine that JOSM will upload a coordinate "non-change" like 
this. If it does, that's a JOSM bug, as there's other ways to produce 
such a non-change like squaring something already square.

> This way the coordinates downloaded from the API would match those from
> ogr2osm, and needlessly modifying the node coordinates with a higher
> precision could be prevented.
Best to attack this on the editor side.d