[Tagging] Admin Boundary admin_centre or label roles

[Alex Iannicelli]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 2:45 PM Sarah Hoffmann <lonvia at denofr.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 11:04:20AM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 10:50 AM Joshua Carlson <jdcarls2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > > What is the administrative center of a city?
> > >
> > > City Hall, I would assume, or whatever similar thing applies. I can't
> > > speak for others, but basically every incorporated
> city/village/township
> > > around me has a designated building in which the administrative
> officials
> > > of the entity meet to, y'know, administrate. It's not quite the same
> as a
> > > "capitol" or "county seat", which applies to a city itself, but if you
> > > *had* to tag something as being the administrative center, that's what
> I
> > > would use.
> > >
> >
> > That is correct.  The city hall would be the correct thing to have the
> > "admin_centre" role.
>
> No, that's not correct. The "admin_centre" must be a _place node_
> never a building.
>
> In particular, if you do put a building in there which happens to
> be a OSM way then you will rightfully find that this building now
> represents a hole in your city (multipolygon).
>
> For example, if you look closely, you'll see that Leverett town hall
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/213756765
> has a boundary around itself coming from this relation
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1839613
>
> Sarah
>
>
Yes, I agree. admin_centre should never be a building.

Thanks!
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