[OSM-talk] how big are ways?

[Alex S.]

Paul Fox wrote:
> but i'm wondering if there are any limits, imposed by validation,
> policy, or simply peer pressure, on either the length, or the
> geographic area covered by any single way.

My personal preference, since I found the tile josm plugin, is to cut a 
single long way (interstate freeway or coastline for example) several 
nodes either side of a z12 tile boundary.