"Peter Cooper Jr. via Talk-us-massachusetts" <[email protected]> writes:
> But, separately from that case, there is a school of thought that it > can be helpful to add some additional nodes on very long straight > segments. The API (or some of the APIs?) for downloading a bounding > box I think will only include a way in it if that way has at least one > node within the requested bounding box. So some people like there > being a node every so many miles/kilometers even if the way would > still be in the same place without them. I'm not going to take a > position on whether or not such is "correct", just saying that you > might see it in some places where it's intentional too. I see that as an API bug and a workaround. But I agree thatg some others see it as proper. My impression is that people that think there should be extra nodes so downloads work are thinking in terms of 25 km or more, like straight lines in western states. MA town lines are ~never that long (as a straight segment). I can find some 13 km here and there in MA, but it's hard to find much longer. East border of Westford, west border of Winchendon, NW border of Barre. The west border of Reboboth is 14 km. So that's my story; 14 km max. > This list is as good a place as any. You may find more people on the > forums, or the OSM US Slack <https://slack.openstreetmap.us/>. But > there are still some of us who are very comfortable with email, yes, > and hopefully enough of us to make a discussion interesting and > helpful. Agreed. I don't care much for the forum interface (maybe if there were a gnus backend :-). And Slack is a proprietary system that requires signing a contract with bad terms (last I looked) with a company, so in my view it is inconsistent with a community open data project. _______________________________________________ Talk-us-massachusetts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us-massachusetts
