[mkgmap-dev] Should mkgmap report overly detailed ways?

Wed Mar 26 10:35:30 GMT 2014

Hi, 

I agree that a roundabout should look round, and I don't want to solve
mkgmap
issues in OSM, I just don't understand the idea in situations like this:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/100564006

362 nodes for a simple curve with 77m length? 

Gerd

Brett Russell wrote
> Hi
> I tend to be a rather detailed OSM mapper.  The practical issue is Garmins
> map's restrictions on defining points to around I think 2.5 metres means
> that I am less fussy now.  Trouble with reporting is many roundabouts
> would be pulled up.  As much as I use mkgmap there other applications that
> draw maps, and people like the pictures of roundabouts to look round.
> Therefore, I think mkgmap will have to deal with as best what the OSM
> community maps.  Just my thoughts.
> Cheers
> From: 

> gpetermann_muenchen@

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> mkgmap-dev at .org

> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 10:36:41 +0100
> Subject: [mkgmap-dev] Should mkgmap report overly detailed ways?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I don't know if their is a rule for mappers, but the typical 
> way has not more than 2 nodes on a segment that is < 3m long.
> 
> Some routines (e.g. the new WrongAngleFixer) in mkgmap 
> have a lot of work with ways that are heavyly detailed.
> 
> It would be quite easy to report them like this:
> Warning (POIGeneratorHook):
> e:\osm_out_work\ontario\20140302_095212\63240011.o5m: highly detailed way
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/100564006 has 362 nodes and is
> only ~ 77m long
> 
> The question is: Would anybody use this info reduce the details in OSM?
> 
> Gerd
> 
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