-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Udo Giacomozzi wrote: > Is there a good reason why all map databases seem to be fixed on > straight lines and do not support some kind of bezier curves? After > all, streets most of the time have curves and only at junctions or in > other rare situations have corners. > > Using bezier curves would at the same time lead to more smooth lines > and reduce way points and are not really hard for renderers nor for > calculating intersections and similar. > > I realize that the OSM data will continue to use straight lines, but > I'm just wondering why curved data is deprecated.
AFAICR, because someone (NavTeq?) has a patent on the idea. Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkm+fLIACgkQz+aYVHdncI17OgCg9Jdmw6HWOJgSUTLUGA2ILmtM IdQAnjrVqtts7i2tYuyHW4y97wn3ZxQ3 =0cO1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
