[talk-au] How many segments for a road ?

Brent Easton b.easton at exemail.com.au
Mon Dec 10 10:39:27 GMT 2007


Hi Elizabeth,

To ensure rendering by Osmarender, you should have a node at least every 5 km's or so. I try and keep way lengths to a maximum of around 200 nodes, regardless of length.

Regards,
Brent. 

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On 10/12/2007 at 9:13 PM Elizabeth Dodd  wrote:

>On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Stuart Robinson wrote:
>> Should still be split up into several ways, just because otherwise one is
>> forced to load a 135km long way just to look at a small area that just
>> happens to have this long road going through it...
>>
>> stuart.
>
>This is worth talking about, but I cannot imagine why one would currently
>wish 
>to look in detail at the road I am considering at the moment. 
>The one I have in mind is the Hay Balranald section of the Sturt Highway.
>I made 7 waypoints, covering most details of the entire route. There are
>also 
>two main junctions, the road to Maude which makes a staggered junction
>with 
>the road to Moulamein; and the road to Kyalite and Tooleybuc.
>Exactly which small area you are going to want to download I cannot
>imagine.
>So, the more opinions the better.
>
>
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Brent Easton                       
Analyst/Programmer                               
University of Western Sydney                                   
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