[OSM-talk] Too many nodes?

[Brian Quinion]

> > Interesting, Artem sent a mail in January that he was working on it
> > and I foolishly assumed that meant he was working on it in SVN.
> > However looking through the source it seems you are right, there's
> > nothing there.
> > I'll bug him to release a patch at least so we can play with it.

Many thanks!

> This bezier stuff is nice for the renderers, but it shouldn't be a
> substitute for having enough nodes to define the curve. Don't forget there
> are other data consumers/renderers that may not have the ability to do
> bezier curves. Extra nodes can always be reduced by using a simplification
> algorithm if the number of nodes is a problem for a particular application.

While I agree with you what is 'enough'?  I'm doing hi resolution maps
for print - effectively zoom level 20 maybe 21 - and it would be
unreasonable to expect people to put in enough nodes to make that look
smooth!

Like everything else bezier smoothing is another tool...

Cheers,
--
 Brian