On 31 Oct 2008, at 04:07, Dave Stubbs wrote: > 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 :-)
I agree, and I think it's awesome we have this problem - better having people stretching the API than not using it. > > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > Best Steve _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
