[Talk-us] Parks, etc. Points or outlines

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 05:51:14 BST 2012


On 4/24/2012 10:21 PM, Toby Murray wrote:
> I think the reason they exist is the same reason why cities always
> have a node in addition to their administrative boundaries. And
> states/countries too far that matter. Most renderers render the name
> from the nodes, not the admin boundaries.

This makes sense for a city, where the center/downtown is not the 
centroid. But for a county or larger, you usually want the label at the 
centroid of the polygon, so the node is redundant.



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