[talk-au] More General Observations

[Ross Scanlon]

On Sun, 9 May 2010 20:49:57 +1000
John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9 May 2010 19:33, Ross Scanlon <info at 4x4falcon.com> wrote:
> > Mainly on straight roads.  I know when tracing it can make it easier to do so using lots of nodes but this vandalism was hard to revert because of the number of excess nodes on ways.
> 
> It is worth noting that you should add a node once every 5 km or so,
> no matter how straight a road looks, otherwise there might be
> rendering issues due to the projection being used.

I'm talking about city blocks where over a 1/2km section there was 10 nodes not designating anything.  The simplify way tool removed all of them and left the two end nodes only.

They were "traced" from nearmap.


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Cheers
Ross