[OSM-talk] too many nodes

[Lars Aronsson]

In some places, I find line segments drawn with far more nodes 
than is necessary.  One example is here in Berlin,
http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit.html?lat=52.5199999336276&lon=13.37&zoom=14

In this example, which shows a motorway, the nodes need to be 
moved around so that the two lanes appear parallel at constant 
distance.  The nodes should be aligned in pairs, as described on 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Editing_Standards_and_Conventions#Roads

If the applet had a button to remove a node while shortcutting the 
segments that connect to it (provided there are 2 of them), it 
would be easy to fix this kind of error.  Right now, it is a royal 
pain to redraw a map like this into something smooth and useful. 
And it's all the worse when the line segments zig-zag because 
somebody has been walking around.

I assume these line segments, ugly as they are, were automatically 
generated by some client software (JOSM?), directly from a single 
tracklog.  Can this software be improved?


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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