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

[Gernot Hillier]

Hi!

Robin Paulson schrieb:
> 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

Wow, a third variant to do it. I suppose you mean
boundary=administrative, right?

But, in my eyes, this variant conflicts with what is described on
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_tags_for_routing#City.

Also, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:boundary doesn't
mention a word about cities, towns, hamlets and the like...

And if we use boundary for that, why do we then allow to tag areas as
places?

--
Gernot