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

[Stefan de Konink]

On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:

> 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.

Moving stuff in GIS is never trivial. You don't know why it is wrong, and
even if it looks 'locally' shifted it could be even misrectified causing
it to be shifted and streched possibly rotated.

My own town is in this situation. And most AND data imported in NL has
also a very strange offset to what several GPX traces show as 'this is the
road'.


Stefan