Hi On 10/08/09 10:52, Chris Miller wrote:
Given that it's only when a relatively low number is given for --max-nodes that we run into any trouble, maybe it's best to leave at 2000 for now. Is there a reason why people would want to use such a low number? Smaller tiles so more flexibility about exactly what they upload to their Garmin perhaps?
Well I'm just saying that there was no particular thought in choosing 2000 in the first place. For really old devices that have limited memory you may only be able to load a few tiles at a time and then it would be more flexible to have smaller tiles. But this is really from before OSM was started, I've never had anyone complain that tiles were too big, in fact quite the opposite. So ideally you want to be able to make the tiles as large as possible. However if you only look at the number of nodes then you find that you have to have it quite low to cope with one particular area when a higher value would have been fine everywhere else. ..Steve