[Talk-us] NHD conversions to OSM

[Ian Dees]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> 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.


Good call. I'll file a bug for that.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/attachments/20110609/2b42ca1c/attachment.html>