[Talk-GB] Should a place be tagged with a node or area?

[Philip Barnes]

Hi Adam
The place is put on the node.

Normally only admim boundaries are mapped in OSM. Suburbs, localties etc do not tend to have defined boundaries so are generally only mapped as nodes.

Phil (trigpoint)

On Thu Feb 9 23:48:30 2017 GMT, Adam Snape wrote:
> Thanks Phil,
> 
> Our local place mapping must be quite primitive, because few place
> boundaries are mapped. Do you mean that both the boundary and node should
> carry the place=tag? Where there isn't a clear boundary to the place,
> should the mapper estimate it? Glad to hear I've been putting the nodes in
> the right place anyway :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Adam
> 
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> 
> Normally places are mapped with both a boundary and node.
> 
> A node is certainly needed for navigation and should be somewhere sensible,
> normally the centre is where someone who puts the placename into a satnav
> would expect to end up, rather than a housing estate in the geographical
> centre.
> 
> Phil (trigpoint)
>

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