[Tagging] Points instead of areas

Graeme Fitzpatrick graemefitz1 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 21:54:45 UTC 2018


Wow, thanks Martin - amazing stuff

Thanks

Graeme

On 8 August 2018 at 23:11, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> sent from a phone
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> On 8. Aug 2018, at 05:24, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The centre of a place is a little cultural, a little of frequent use and a
> little from signs.m
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> I’ve written 2 diary entries about the centres of Rome and Berlin, maybe
> it is of interest in this context:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/dieterdreist/diary/40735
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> For historic cities the centre is typically the castle (often the same
> location) often nowadays there’s the townhall, while railway stations are
> usually at the border of the historic city, not the centre centre.
>
> Churches traditionally also tend to be at the borders, because their
> churchyard was used for burying and to reduce the risk of plagues it wasn’t
> in the centre.
>
> It depends how old the place is, obviously.
>
> Ciao, Martin
>
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