When splitting data in arbitrary positions (e.g. coastlines in remote areas) I like to go for a maximum of 1000-1500 nodes per way.
If you upload ways with the maximum number of nodes and someone wants to refine the geometry by adding nodes they have to first split them. Also keep in mind that admin boundaries will need to be split whenever they intersect another admin boundary. From: Simon Poole [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 10:06 AM To: Colin Smale; OSM Dev List Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] Max nodes in a way? The API enforces a limit of 2'000 nodes. Simon Colin Smale <[email protected]> schrieb: Hi, I am working on some gigantic GPX files with hundreds of thousands of points, representing admin boundary polygons. I'm sure these huge ways will break something or cause performance to be dreadful, so I am planning to split the enormous polygons into a number of ways and tie them together in a relation. What's a reasonable value to assume for the maximum number of nodes in a way? 1000? 10000? Colin _____ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev -- Sent from my Galaxy Tab with Kaiten Mail.
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