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

[John Smith]

--- On Sun, 9/8/09, Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de> wrote:
> Most likely this is true because the TIGER dataset was
> actually traced
> from/for a much lower precision map, hence wavy because you
> are plotting
> it on a far higher resolution then it was created for. With
> respect to
> TIGER you might say: TIGER is *so* bad, Yahoo will always
> be better. My
> point is, unless Yahoo is actualy validated where you are
> tracing it
> gives poor output too, no matter how bad you think TIGER
> is.

Assuming that yahoo is wrong, at least it will be consistently wrong and it's trivially to mass move ways when you do get reference points to re-align the data to.