Re: [OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

2010-04-16 Thread Erik Johansson
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: >> I want to >> simplify the outline to make the files smaller and to make drawing quicker >> (I have many of these shapes to use in an OpenLayers vector layer), > > I didn't know that OpenLayers supported OSM files natively? It's fast and ext

Re: [OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

2010-04-16 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, April 16, 2010 15:36, Frederik Ramm wrote: > I didn't know that OpenLayers supported OSM files natively? I am using this example to do it. http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/osm-layer.html In the source is some code that reads the .osm file from a subdirectory. I assume that it is n

Re: [OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

2010-04-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Andrew Errington wrote: > I have some .osm files containing the outlines of areas. Where did these come from? > I want to > simplify the outline to make the files smaller and to make drawing quicker > (I have many of these shapes to use in an OpenLayers vector layer), I didn't know that

Re: [OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

2010-04-15 Thread Sebastian Klein
Andrew Errington wrote: > On Fri, April 16, 2010 11:30, John Smith wrote: >> On 16 April 2010 12:05, Andrew Errington >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> >>> I have some .osm files containing the outlines of areas. I want to >>> simplify the outline to make the files smaller and to make drawing >>>

Re: [OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

2010-04-15 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, April 16, 2010 11:30, John Smith wrote: > On 16 April 2010 12:05, Andrew Errington > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> >> I have some .osm files containing the outlines of areas. I want to >> simplify the outline to make the files smaller and to make drawing >> quicker (I have many of these shape

Re: [OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

2010-04-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 April 2010 12:05, Andrew Errington wrote: > Hi all, > > I have some .osm files containing the outlines of areas. I want to > simplify the outline to make the files smaller and to make drawing quicker > (I have many of these shapes to use in an OpenLayers vector layer), but I > want to keep

Re: [OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

2010-04-15 Thread Robin Paulson
On 16 April 2010 14:05, Andrew Errington wrote: > I have some .osm files containing the outlines of areas.  I want to > simplify the outline to make the files smaller and to make drawing quicker > (I have many of these shapes to use in an OpenLayers vector layer), but I > want to keep the same gen

[OSM-talk] Simplifying shapes

2010-04-15 Thread Andrew Errington
Hi all, I have some .osm files containing the outlines of areas. I want to simplify the outline to make the files smaller and to make drawing quicker (I have many of these shapes to use in an OpenLayers vector layer), but I want to keep the same general shape. Is there a tool to do this? One op