[OSM-talk] Places website update

[Andy Robinson]

matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk wrote:
>Sent: 14 November 2006 12:19 AM
>To: OJW
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Places website update
>
>On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:02:08PM +0000, OJW wrote:
>> Update of the "Places" website occurred last night - thanks to everyone
>> running the rendering clients, apologies to everyone who found the site
>> broken during the update.
>
>Oops... So I moved the Loughborough "place name" node to the side of the
>town so
>that the label doesn't obscure the map... and then of course the map
>doesn't fit
>into the rendered area any more:
>

There is an argument for placing the place node at the logical centre of the
place but adding an additional tag or tags to define the logical location
for the label. Either this or have two nodes, one for the location and a
place_text or something similar to add the label to rendered maps.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 


>  http://almien.co.uk/OSM/Places/?id=214
>
>Maybe it would be a good idea to have a rough "place boundary" for
>rendering
>an area? i.e. I create an area around the town (fairly rough, rectangular
>or
>similar) with "place=town, name=Loughborough", which would be a hint for a
>renderer as to the size it should pick. This would be in addition to the
>node
>with the same tags, that provides the actual position of the label itself.
>
>Overkill? Another way of doing it?
>
>Thanks,
>
>--
>Matthew
>
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