[talk-au] "place" areas or nodes?

[Franc Carter]

Grey areas can also be rendered for landuse=residential

One use for areas is if you have the boundaries for a suburb, state etc
I have permission to deriver the boundaries for several sydney suburbs from
the 'Geographical Names Board' official maps - which means I can add in
fairly
precise boundaries for those suburbs.

On 8/15/07, Brent Easton <b.easton at exemail.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Steve
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>
> On 15/08/2007 at 7:36 PM Steve  wrote:
>
> >Hello all,
> >
> >What is the preferred method for labeling a city/town/suburb/village?
>
>
> Rural Towns, villages I have been labeling as a node place at the Post
> Office. I have been using node hamlets for 'localities'. I never use areas.
> I don't think there is a real need for using areas - what do you hope to
> achieve?
>
> Residential streets generate a gray shading that shows on lower zooms, but
> I do not know where the gray areas you mention are coming from. The must be
> being merged in by Mapnik from
>
>
> Regards,
> Brent.
>
>
> >I've labeled Bungendore (near Canberra) using just a node but have just
> >ran a rough outline of Queanbeyan and Oaks Estate and created an area
> >instead.
> >Also, I have created an area around Jerrabomberra, which is wholly
> >contained within the Queanbeyan area, and I have labeled it a suburb
> >(this will cause some debate amongst locals no doubt!).
> >
> >I notice that some zoom levels there is already a grey outline around
> >some towns around Canberra, including Queanbeyan. I have no idea who
> >entered that data and can see no evidence of it as a way - and yet there
> >it is. I don't want to ruin or duplicate any existing data.
> >
> >So to summarise my questions:-
> >a) How are you guys labeling towns, etc (are you using nodes or areas)?
> >b) How are those town outlines that appear at high zoom levels on the
> >main map being created?
> >
> >Thanks in advance for any info,
> >
> >Steve.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >Talk-au mailing list
> >Talk-au at openstreetmap.org
> >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-au
> >
> >
> >--
> >No virus found in this incoming message.
> >Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> >Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.19/953 - Release Date:
> 14/08/2007 5:19 PM
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________
> Brent Easton
> Analyst/Programmer
> University of Western Sydney
> Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-au mailing list
> Talk-au at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-au
>



-- 
Franc
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/attachments/20070815/f30d3d4f/attachment.html>