[Talk-ca] CanVec bug - splitting of long riverbank ways?

[Brian Gamberg]

Canvec data appears to be produced with a maximum of 2K nodes per way. I assume that this was an attempt by the Canvec people to meet the max 2K node criteria of the OSM database.  When the split occurs in a way that is a member of a multipolygon, there's not a problem.  Otherwise, as Paul has pointed out, broken data may be uploaded inadvertently.  In JOSM, a quick check for this is to use the search function with the string "nodes: 2000-".
  
On Monday, November 12, 2012 11:27 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote: 
> I appear to of found a CanVec 10 bug in 094P13.0.osm 
>  
> There is a waterway=riverbank way (Dilly Creek) that is split in two at 
> 59.7728641, 11219806992One way is 2k nodes, the other is 457 nodes. 
>  
> Ideally this would be split in two to form two separate areas. An alternate 
> solution would be to not split them and have one way over 2k nodes. This 
> will force the importer to fix it before uploading as opposed to right now 
> where if someone doesn't notice they will upload broken data. 
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