[Talk-us] NHD conversions to OSM

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:

> If I remember correctly the converter is keeping as little in-memory as
> possible (so it can convert huge shapefiles). Also, it will split ways at
> 2000 nodes and turn things into multipolygons.

If that 2000 could be cranked down lower, it would leave room for
local mappers to improve a geometry without also having to split the
way at the 2k boundary right away.  Best practice iirc is to limit
ways to 1000 nodes when creating them.