[OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Andrew Errington wrote:
> I have some .osm files containing the outlines of areas.  

Where did these come from?

> 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), 

I didn't know that OpenLayers supported OSM files natively?

I'm asking because I think it is likely that the data will have been 
converted from format A to OSM and from OSM to format B for display, and 
both A and B may have better ways of simplifying than the OSM format

Bye
Frederik