[talk-au] [OSM-talk] And the prize for the largest closed way goes to...

[Andrew Laughton]

2009/12/10 John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>:
> 2009/12/10 James Livingston <doctau at mac.com>:
>> The problem is that a lot of our big stuff is broken up into multiple ways due to being too accurate and so having >2000 nodes. The largest thing I can think of with not too complicated edges is the Woomera Prohibited Area, somewhere around 130000km iirc. I wonder if it renders "military area pink" at zoom 0, since it'd be big enough to see...
>
> Like state borders, most country borders aren't enclosed areas. eg
> Western Australia 2.5mil sq km + 12 nautical miles out to sea
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Part of the trouble is, it all needs to have the same speed limit, the
same road surface, the same name, the same width etc.