[OSM-talk] using areas and/or nodes for citys/towns, car parks, etc.?

[Robin Paulson]

On 14/12/2007, Gernot Hillier <gernot at hillier.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Sorry for self follow up - but is there really no-one able to shed some
> light on this topic (how to correctly map towns)? Or did I ask some
> stupid FAQ? As told, on the german talk list, we had quite some
> confusion about this...
>

boundaries. for my uses, boundaries are (or will be, when i get round
to finsihing auckland) used to mark the edge of the city, or district
or whatever, and i place a node  where i want the name of the city (or
suburb, etc,) to show on the map. as far as i can tell, these render
as a line with the 'left' and 'right' regions printed on the
corresponding side of the line

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features#Boundary