<br>Grey areas can also be rendered for landuse=residential<br><br>One use for areas is if you have the boundaries for a suburb, state etc<br>I have permission to deriver the boundaries for several sydney suburbs from<br>the 'Geographical Names Board' official maps - which means I can add in fairly
<br>precise boundaries for those suburbs.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brent Easton</b> <<a href="mailto:b.easton@exemail.com.au">b.easton@exemail.com.au</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Steve<br><br>*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********<br><br>On 15/08/2007 at 7:36 PM Steve wrote:
<br><br>>Hello all,<br>><br>>What is the preferred method for labeling a city/town/suburb/village?<br><br><br>Rural Towns, villages I have been labeling as a node place at the Post Office. I have been using node hamlets for 'localities'. I never use areas. I don't think there is a real need for using areas - what do you hope to achieve?
<br><br>Residential streets generate a gray shading that shows on lower zooms, but I do not know where the gray areas you mention are coming from. The must be being merged in by Mapnik from<br><br><br>Regards,<br>Brent.<br>
<br><br>>I've labeled Bungendore (near Canberra) using just a node but have just<br>>ran a rough outline of Queanbeyan and Oaks Estate and created an area<br>>instead.<br>>Also, I have created an area around Jerrabomberra, which is wholly
<br>>contained within the Queanbeyan area, and I have labeled it a suburb<br>>(this will cause some debate amongst locals no doubt!).<br>><br>>I notice that some zoom levels there is already a grey outline around
<br>>some towns around Canberra, including Queanbeyan. I have no idea who<br>>entered that data and can see no evidence of it as a way - and yet there<br>>it is. I don't want to ruin or duplicate any existing data.
<br>><br>>So to summarise my questions:-<br>>a) How are you guys labeling towns, etc (are you using nodes or areas)?<br>>b) How are those town outlines that appear at high zoom levels on the<br>>main map being created?
<br>><br>>Thanks in advance for any info,<br>><br>>Steve.<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>>_______________________________________________<br>>Talk-au mailing list<br>><a href="mailto:Talk-au@openstreetmap.org">
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