On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Florian Lohoff wrote: >> Its 2^15 because it signed - and yes - somebody managed to get abovE: > > This definitely has to stop. We need to (a) find all ways with more than > a few thousand nodes and break them down, and (b) educate users that > they shouldn't do such evil things. Imagine the poor sod who opens a > little rectangle in JOSM just to find he has to wait for ages to > download 40k nodes! This slows down so many things. > > (And what's more, once someone creates a way with 50.001 nodes, no > bounding box containing even one node of that way will be downloadable > through the API.) > > I know that shortcomings in the renderers still make it attractive for > mappers to create giant polygons but we cannot allow this to get out of > hand.
I'm all for an API hard limit of 1000 nodes in a way. That wouldn't impact any normal stuff, but would put a stop to megaways pretty quickly without the need for a re-education programme :-) Dave _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
