<div dir="ltr">Martin, thanks for pointing that out. I should clarify. I'm not against this import so long as the community thinks boundaries are good for OSM. As for the place=* tags, if there isn't a conflict in placing them both on the boundary and a node, then so be it.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-05-04 20:59 GMT+02:00 Elliott Plack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elliott.plack@gmail.com" target="_blank">elliott.plack@gmail.com</a>></span>:<div class="">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>In my experience, place=hamlet,village,town,city are <b>better placed as nodes</b> at the boundary centroid, rather than with ways representing the boundary. Mapnik and Mapbox use the nodes rather than the boundary lines to render. I am pretty familiar with place=* tags. Importing the boundaries are nice in terms of getting that data out there for all to see, but for place mapping consider adding nodes at the centroids.</div>
</blockquote></div></div><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I think that both are valueable information, a place polygon (not to confuse with the administrative boundary, which often incorporates also fields, forests etc.) could be used to describe the area of the settlement (shape and size) and the place node can be used to indicate the more or less obvious centre point (e.g. for routing without a specific address, for low scale maprendering / labeling etc.).<br>
<br>As all settlements do have a spatial extension I fail to understand how omitting this would be "better".<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">cheers,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Martin<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Elliott Plack</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://about.me/elliottp" target="_blank">http://about.me/elliottp</a></div>
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