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

[Matthias Julius]

Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> writes:

> 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.

For coastlines we certainly could get rid of anything that is outside
the bounding box. Actually we could do that for anything except closed
areas. And there, everything that is outside could be simplified to 1
node on each corner it goes around.

Matthias