[Tilesathome] newbie question: xmlstarlet error: Tile too complex

[Matthias Julius]

Dirk-Lüder Kreie <osm-list at deelkar.net> writes:

> Florian Schmitt schrieb:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> after i recieved my upload credentials yesterday, i started generating tiles,
>> but soon the following error occured:
>> 
> [...]
>> 
>> Is this due to lack of RAM (my machine has 1.5 GB), to the osm data or to a
>> configuration problem?
>
> Very likely an osm data error (as it says: too long way)

Is there a limit defined for the length of a way? I know there are
guidelines, but to make "too long way" a data error there needs to be
a difinition how long a way can be.

Is it now possible to break up very large areas into multiple ways and
then joining them using a (multipolygon) relation? But, I guess this
would not help much since a renderer would still need to get all ways
that form the area in order to decide on whitch side of the way the
area is. One could put that information into the "role" attribute, but
that gets messy.

Matthias