[Talk-us] administrative boundaries and Nominatim

[Peter Dobratz]

> The solution to this is to replace nodes with polygons, period.

>
> Is it sensible to have a polygon for the boundary and also a node that
> locates precisely the cultural/logical center?  Does Nominatim ignore
> the node when there is a same-named boundary?  Or is there some way to
> have a relation for a town that has both a polygon and a center?
>

 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:boundary

Apparently you can add a node to the relation with role admin_centre.
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