[Openstreetmap] naming Roads

[Andy Robinson]

Sorry I missed the original request for a response from the Birmingham
contingent on this!

Personally I don't see the need to up the points limit. The majority of my
mapping like Alex's is done with 1 sec interval track points so we get a
swathe of yellow up close when editing. Yes it means there is not much track
to see when zoomed out (just the most recent segment) but that's irrelevant
when editing has to be done close in anyway for urban areas.

I still think we should be aiming, like Alex says, at having at least some
filtering or selection basis on track points. Otherwise the problem is only
going to get worse.

Just out of interest, what map scale are others editing at? I'm generally at

1.4e-05 for the residential streets and perhaps 2e-05 for the distance
routes. I guess perhaps with the greater node "snap" capability some are
editing farther out?, in which case the amount of points rendered may become
an issue.

Andy Robinson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openstreetmap-bounces at vr.ucl.ac.uk [mailto:openstreetmap-
> bounces at vr.ucl.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alex Willmer
> Sent: 10 November 2005 19:48
> To: openstreetmap at vr.ucl.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: [Openstreetmap] naming Roads
> 
> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 15:56 +0000, SteveC wrote:
> > > Also some areas have been *very* well traversed by GPS carriers -
> > and it
> > > seems that the GPS tracks are only shown if there are less than
> > 5000? of
> > > them in the display area - this means that I can only see tracks if
> > > zoomed in really close.
> >
> > 5k or 50k points is the limit. Something like that. Simply because
> > much
> > more takes far too long to render and ship to the browser.
> >
> > > * Would it be possible to show tracks at least for the central area
> > when
> > > editing
> >
> > I can up the limit. Again, this is a balance between different use
> > cases. How do the guys in Birmingham feel about it?
> 
> I'm more or less happy with the current limit. I can't speak for anyone
> else of course.
> 
> I would love to be able to turn off specific tracks (ie don't draw
> trackpoints from track-20051023.gpx.gz, or all tracks uploaded within a
> date range). However that would complicate the applet somewhat.
> 
> In general, I log at a comparitively high rate (1 trkpt/sec). Does this
> cause problems for anyone, or is a high rate preferred?
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
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