Martin and I have had this conversation on private e-mail too, but one point bears repeating:
> I know that some people like this tidy-points-function to > work on TIGER-Data, but I tell you: if the TIGER-Data is > not good/precise, it won't get better using this function ;-) That is evidently not true. Find a grid system - almost any US city will do. Look at the TIGER data. It weaves and waves all over the place. Turn on the Yahoo imagery, align the start and end points of the way, and select the 'Tidy' function. Hey presto, the street is now correctly aligned to the grid. You could have done this manually, but it would have taken 10 times as long and wouldn't be as precise. _That_ is why this function is here: to simplify the work of one of the most tedious parts of TIGER fixup. As always, "it's of no use for my mapping" should not be extrapolated to "it's of no use and should be banned". cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/to-all-potlatch-and-JOSM-users---automatic-simplification-of-geometry-tp24877882p24885509.html Sent from the OpenStreetMap - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
