[OSM-newbies] Any purpose for both an closed way, and a separate node in the centre?

[Alan Mintz]

At 2010-08-08 07:23, Dave F. wrote:
>  On 07/08/2010 22:27, Claudius wrote:
>>One little hint to preserve the nodes' history: Use the former single 
>>node as a node of the newly created polygon shape.
>Could you explain the advantage of this?
>
>The tags should be applied to the closed way.


Yes.

I like Claudius's idea. The process is:

1. Move existing node to a corner of the area.

2. Draw the area (closed way), using the old node as a corner.

3. Copy the tags from the old node and then delete them from that node.

4. Paste the tags to the new way.


I don't think there are any, but if there are found to be shapes for which 
the renderers cannot auto-determine a correct position to render the name, 
we could add a location_hint node[0] to tell it where to put the name.

[0]As is currently documented for turn restriction relations at 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Turn_restriction

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>