On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote: > I would commend this forced simplification to the JOSM devs. Ways are > automatically split after an interval of n seconds.
Unlike Potlatch JOSM is a powertool. It shouldn't force you to do anything. Recently I traced a zigzag road in Greece from a GPX track in JOSM by converting the GPX to OSM, cleaning it up by deleting a few point clouds and then merging it into the main layer & uploading: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/40783985/history I tried to simplify the track using the utilsplugin but that made the road way more inaccurate than my trace was. What was previously a smooth curve around a bend turned into a few crude points that would have looked bad on the map. I could have manually traced or fixed the whole thing but that would have taken me at least an hour instead of the 2-5 minutes it took by using the GPX->OSM->fix method. We would do well to remember that not everyone wants to spend an hour to perfectly trace some way in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes importing an almost raw GPX track is quick, good enough and perfectly appropriate. We can always fix the data later. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
