[HOT] Quick question on village mapping

[Andrew Buck]

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I usually go with a node just because it is a bit more resilliant in
case of odd situations.  For example a town/village that is multiple
clusters of buildings separated by a river or some other feature.  For
these a node is the only option unless you want to multipolygon the areas.

As for putting it on the area, it does make it a bit easier to
calculate the size of the village in something like GIS software,
however assosciating the nodes/areas is a simple spatial query anyway
so I think the node still probably makes more sense.

- -AndrewBuck


On 10/28/2015 04:53 AM, Pete Masters wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> If you are adding field data to an existing shape
> (landuse=residential), would you tag the shape as place=village /
> name=whatever or would you add a node and tag the node.
> 
> I've generally done the latter, but am seeing quite a few villages
> in Chad that conform to the former.
> 
> Is there a best practice here?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
> 
> 
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