[OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

[Andrew Errington]

Hi all,

I have some .osm files containing the outlines of areas.  I want to
simplify the outline to make the files smaller and to make drawing quicker
(I have many of these shapes to use in an OpenLayers vector layer), but I
want to keep the same general shape.  Is there a tool to do this?  One
option I suppose is to convert osm to GPX and then use GPSbabel or
something to smooth the paths then convert back to osm, but this seems
cumbersome...

Thanks,

Andrew