[Tilesathome] close-areas producing very long ways -> inkscape crashing

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> Opening the data_PID_close-areas.osm in JOSM and simplifying the large
> way to about 3000 nodes helped. Inkscape can render the tile.

I think this is what the close-areas script must do, then; splitting the way
in smaller parts is not an option since it breaks the area rendering. But
simplifying *any* coastline down to <1000 points should not lose too much
detail.

We can re-use the line simplification I have implemented in the coast_josm
script for coastline upload, that's Perl already so should be easy to adapt.

Bye
Frederik

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