2009/11/2 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]> > 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. > > wait for potlatch 2.0 ;-)
> Recently I traced a zigzag road in Greece from a GPX track in JOSM > by...<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. > > +1, the main issue is that no piece of software but just you know where there was a curve, which line was straight and where it was really ondulated. I personally care about those details, and while I would like to represent a straight line with just 2 points (and not 3 or 4), I would also like to have quite a lot of points in curves to represent them well. > We would do well to remember that not everyone wants to spend an hour > to perfectly trace some way in the middle of nowhere. perfectly true for the middle of nowhere but horrible in densly builtup areas. > Sometimes > importing an almost raw GPX track is quick, good enough and perfectly > appropriate. > > We can always fix the data later. > true, but what I sometimes face is the opposite: traced for some time very precisely some road/footway till someone thinks: hey, it would be enough to have this represented by 8 nodes, and applies some algo-magic to it. cheers, Martin
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