[OSM-talk] ways and the java applet

[Andy Robinson]

Sounds like a bust to me. Has someone submit it to trac yet?

Cheers,

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Schmidt
>Sent: 01 June 2006 00:20
>To: Lars Aronsson
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] ways and the java applet
>
>On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 01:08:20AM +0200, Lars Aronsson wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying out the new "ways" functionality in the java applet.
>> After I have added a large number of line segments to a way,
>> perhaps 20 km or so (100 or 200 segments?), it suddenly becomes
>> impossible to add more segments.  Is there some maximum length of
>> API calls?
>>
>> >From the java applet I cannot see the ID number for this way, but
>> the java console tells me this is <way id='1630601'>, and that it
>> has 151 line segments after which it ends like this:
>>
>>     <seg id='58749' />
>>     <seg id='58750' />
>>     <seg id='58751' />
>>     <seg id='587' />
>>     <tag k='name' v='Riksväg 32' />
>>     <tag k='class' v='primary' />
>>   </way>
>> </osm>
>>
>> The last '587' indeed looks as if something was truncated on the
>> byte level.  That's really not a "graceful degradation".
>
>Huh. that explains one of the problems I'm having with the OSM dump:
>there is a "Federal Highway" in Australia that was linked to segment
>id="70" -- but the other segments were in the 70,000s, so this seems
>like it could definitely be the problem. (The way in question has been
>changed now, so it no longer demonstrates the problem.)
>
>This isn't really helpful, but I did want to throw in that it seems it
>likely isn't just you who's had this problem.
>
>--
>Christopher Schmidt
>Web Developer
>
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