[OSM-talk] to all potlatch and JOSM users - automatic simplification of geometry

[Richard Fairhurst]

Tobias Knerr wrote:

> But maybe "in those parts of the world where streets are not perfectly
> straight, it is of no use and even dangerous in the hands of newbies"
> should be extrapolated to "it should not be included by default but
> provided by a plugin/option"?

Hm. I can think of plenty of towns where one part of town has grid- 
like streets, another a few metres away is all curly housing estate  
roads.

As I've said several times to Martin, once I have a spare minute I'll  
add some sort of confirmation dialogue if you try to straighten a  
street with more than n metres divergence. But for now, I'm off on  
holiday.

cheers
Richard