[Tagging] Admin Boundary admin_centre or label roles

[Colin Smale]

>     On 10/02/2021 12:10 PM Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>     tguen wrote:
>     > As I said before, if using label nodes as a hint for renderers 
>     > truly is "bad and unwanted", then place nodes have no 
>     > reason to coexist with boundary relations. Would you object 
>     > to me deleting them?
> 
>     Renderers are not the only things that consume OSM data.
> 
>     Routers need place nodes to determine the centre of a town/city. If you ask for a bike route from Cambridge to Oxford, you want Great St Mary's to Carfax, not a random centroid somewhere in a housing estate to a random centroid somewhere in a lake.
> 
Especially if the centroid is based on the council area and not the settlement... Nobody ever says "take me to the Borough of Gravesham" for example. Navigation is about places, not admin boundaries.
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