[OSM-talk] how big are ways?

[Paul Fox]

dave wrote:
 > make an API bbox request. Because of this the t at h tile layer will
 > probably not display a way which crosses a z12 tile, but does not have
 > a node within that tile area. Because of this, I'd guess the vast
 > majority of ways have at least one node per map zoom level 12 tile.
 ...
 > is taking forever, but what I can tell you is that only 7 lines have
 > an average node measure > 30km ish. (that is:
 > length(way)/numpoints(way)). So I think you're fairly safe.

excellent.  thanks very much.

paul
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