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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/8/9 John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com>:
> 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.

no, unfortunately according to my gps-traces and knowledge of the
actual situation in my city, it is sometimes misaligned and distorted,
sometimes it seems OK. There is no general rule about this (seems to
depend on rectifiying and stiching of the original fotos / on their
tiling). There is also often a "curvy" distortion, where perfectly
straight buildings and streets are curved in yahoo.

cheers,
Martin