[Tagging] Admin Boundary admin_centre or label roles

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Thu Sep 30 12:57:26 UTC 2021




Sep 30, 2021, 09:41 by lonvia at denofr.de:

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 07:57:34AM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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>> sent from a phone
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>> > On 30 Sep 2021, at 03:05, tguen--- via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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>> > A place node is effectively (and usually literally) the same as the label role. If the label role is deprecated, we should also delete place nodes and move the tags to boundary relations wherever they are present.
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>> the issue with label nodes is not that they are nodes, it’s that “labelling” is an operation that has to do with map drawing, not with collecting geographic data. It’s a semantic issue
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> You are assigning a use to the 'label' role simply based on its name. I highly
> doubt that anybody has ever really extracted the 'label' member of a relation
> to place the name of the relation on a map.
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Whole (bad and unwanted) point of label role is to manually map where label
should be placed on a rendered map.

See for example https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/1134
requesting to do exactly this.

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