Hi Nick,

I think we still can improve distorted shapes, but lines
are pretty to close to what is possible.
I think of the Garmin format as a bed of nails.
Near the equator the nails have a distance of ~2.3 m
with resolution 24. If you go north or south, the horizontal distance
decreases.
Drawing a line on this bed of nails is like
connecting some of the nails with a rubber band.

Shapes are more complicated than lines because
you may not want to produce gaps between them
in some cases, e.g. with buildings.

Gerd

> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 01:10:41 -0700
> From: osm@pinns.co.uk
> To: mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Distorted lines
>
> I know this has been discussed a lot and it is annoying to see these
> distortions but having seen Garmin's City Navigator maps with the same
> problem, I fear there isn't much more we can expect of mkgmap...?
>
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