[OSM-talk] Places website update

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Robinson" <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk>; "'OJW'" 
<streetmap at blibbleblobble.co.uk>
Cc: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Places website update


> 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_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk

Andy
I was thinking along the same lines, see 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/centre_of added 
late last night.
Not sure the proposal in it current form is right, but just wanted to set 
the ball rolling.


David



>
>>  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