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

[spaetz]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:09:44PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> 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.
> 

> 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.

That would be great. Yeah, some simplification should probably be done. I wonder whether it should be done inside close-area.pl or as a separate preprocessor, so that it could easily be applied to forests, roads etc...

spaetz