<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Question:<br>- What's the best practice for adding admin_centre nodes to the village<br>
boundary relation? Should it be the barangay hall (amenity=townhall) <br>or the place=village node?<br><br>------------<br><div>For place nodes, a good practice IMHO is putting said node (eg. place=village) <br>somewhere NEAR but NOT ON an "object or group of objects" which <br>represents the center of the village, typically any of the following:<br></div><div> -barangay hall <br> -village plaza (eg. where there's a multipurpose hall or basketball court) <br></div><div> -the center of traditional grid-street (the oldest populated area of the place)<br></div><div><br></div>My interpretation of "somewhere near" is around 100-150 meters away; <br>on a not-so-important space (eg. a vacant area or generic community)<br>in the vicinity, where there are no other place nodes, or important landmarks <br>like a park or institution.<br></div><br></div>1st Reason: <br>The 'place node' is represented by a TEXT on the map. <br>-a rendered TEXT always cover the lines and polygons under it. Thus,<br></div>putting a place_node very close to another object (eg. important building), <br>will essentially make that building disappear (information visibility is not optimized).<br></div>Said buildings will only appear when you zoom-in on a digital map. <br>But you cannot zoom-in on a paper map (2-D). So I thought, the best practice <br>is to move it just enough not to cover important objects (part of the art).<br></div><div>(until such time we have an algorithm to do that automatically)<br></div><br></div>2nd Reason:<br></div>Putting a place node inside a polygon with a large footprint the size of <br>a neighborhood, like an institutional_polygon or a park; will not just <br>potentially cover the 'name' of institution or park, but add unintended <br>confusion or misrepresentation of the polygon.<br></div>eg. If you put a place_node of Ermita inside Rizal Park's valencia circle, <br>a tourist who wants to go to the heart of Ermita, ends up in Luneta <br>(which is technically Ermita) - but was not probably his/her intention<br><br></div></div>3rd Reason:<br></div>There are some LGU's (municipal and barangays) which relocated (or isolated) <br>their new townhalls away from the village or town centers.<br><br></div>Putting a place_node on top or near an isolated townhall (away from populated center) <br>is not always representative of the general location of the village or the town.<br></div>(this is a dilemna for Mamasapano, where townhall is located near the boundary) <br><div><div><div><br>----------------------- <br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>I'm voting +1 for:<br>place=village as admin_centre, provided it's located NEAR not ON the object (amenity=townhall)<br></div><div></div><div><br>Cheer,<br></div><div>Rally <br></div><div><div><div><div> <br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br></div></div>