[josm-dev] self-intersecting ways

Dirk Stöcker openstreetmap at dstoecker.de
Sun Mar 21 10:15:13 GMT 2010


On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Paul Johnson wrote:

> On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:23:54 +0100, Dirk Stöcker wrote:
>
>> Mapping also means generalizing. This means you do NOT map what is
>> EXACTLY on the ground, but you map what it means and is sensible.
>
> Art generalizes.  Cartography is a science.

Well, than I'm an artist. But I learned to generalize. A lot of research 
in modern cartography is about the fact how you can do this generalizing 
automatically. But it is a major component of VERY map making process.

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