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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">6 Dec 2019, 11:46 by martin.bodin@ens-lyon.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><p>Some context first. So there has been this changeset that
triggered some discussions: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/77845837" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/77845837</a> Changeset comments in not a great place for discussion, so I
suggest that we continue here. (Thanks @SomeoneElse for the link!
☺)<br></p></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Looking at this changeset I think that solution for some of the element is to simply delete it.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">place=continent nodes make no sense at all<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">this tag has major problem due to fact that there are multiple
competing ways<br>how Earth may be divided into continents.<br><br>Given low
number of continents, fact that collecting this data on ones own is easy<br>and that depending on OSM data is not useful (moving, deleting or
changing<br>name of place=continent node would have massive impact on a map)</div><div style="16px" text-align="left">and that it is desirable to
tweak label placement for specific maps it is<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">dubious whatever this data
is useful.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Why <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/36966065">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/36966065</a> is here and<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">not 200 kilometers to the west?<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">like role=label it is pointless exercise in label placement, tuned for rare (unique?)<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">map using this for label placement.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div> </body>
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