[talk-au] Way has been simplified...

[Sebastian S.]

Thanks all, I will probably have a look at OSMAnd settings as a first step.

When editing the note don't bother me too much.

On 12 January 2020 9:31:33 pm AEDT, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at tutanota.com> wrote:
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>12 Jan 2020, 03:18 by 61sundowner at gmail.com:
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>> On 12/1/20 12:37 pm, Sebastian S. wrote:
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>>> When using OSMAnd for routing I came across the following note: "way
>has been simplified using a error criteria of 3m" it is usually in
>green text.
>>> Does anyone know what this means, why do we need the note? What
>purpose does it serve?
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>> This is usually from an import of data. The data may have many points
>(nodes in OSM) that lead to data bloat.
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>> JOSM has a tool that reduces the number of nodes such that any error
>will be less than 3 meters from the original information, 'simplify
>way'.
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>> It may be better to have these as 'comment=*' rather than 'note=*'?
>They should only be for other mappers to see if they have some concern
>with the data.
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>I think that place for such notes is a changeset history. Is it maybe
>really old import
>before changesets were added?
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>I would delete such notes and have changeset with 
>"original way geometry was simplified some time ago, unnecessary nodes
>were deleted"
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