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Increasing number of points in a road.

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Is there anyway to increase the number of points in a road.

Reason: I am working on topological data analysis which focuses on gaps between boundaries. Presently, the roads are sparsely populated and this would lead to weaker detection of gaps. This is the reason to ask for denser roads.

I am using overpass-turbo to extract the data into csv format.

asked 18 Mar '15, 19:57

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Manish Bansal
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edited 18 Mar '15, 20:45

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It would help if you could link to the area that you're interested in

(18 Mar '15, 20:56) SomeoneElse ♦

One Answer:

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It would really be important to know where you are actually trying to do this and get an example.

In general roads in OSM have more than enough points to approximate their geometry within useful limits. Are we on the same page here given that you are referring to boundaries, we may have some confusion in the OSM usage of "way"?

answered 18 Mar '15, 20:30

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edited 18 Mar '15, 20:52

Updated the question.

(18 Mar '15, 20:46) Manish Bansal
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Still not quite clear, could you provide a link to a road that doesn't have enough points ?

(19 Mar '15, 09:53) Vincent de P... ♦

Source code available on GitHub .