[OSM-talk] A post box called Breuningsweiler

[Simon Hewison]

David Earl wrote:
> So put the node in the central square, just don't share it with some other
> feature. Even part of a highway will do, if you must, so long as the node
> itself doesn't have another type such as mini_roundabout. It's the
> overloading of information in nodes that is worrying me.

The day before yesterday, I drove to Herstmonceux, a charming small 
village in West Sussex, which I had previously mapped a reasonable 
proportion of. The village centre used to be a road junction. It still 
is. I can still drive to the same part of the village, and when I get 
there, it's fairly obvious that I'm in the centre of the village; I'm 
surrounded by shops and a pub.

However, since I was last there, the local council have deemed it 
necessary to remodel the junction to include a pedestrian crossing and a 
mini roundabout where the "give way" junction used to be. I don't blame 
them, it was a terrible junction, and difficult to cross safely to get 
to the village school.

So, I'm left with a dilemma. Do I move the centre of the village just 
because the it's now complemented by a mini roundabout,
or do I leave out the rather useful fact that there's a mini roundabout 
where you may need to turn off the A271 to reach one of the other 
streets (and that's just after a new pedestrian crossing)?

-- 
Simon Hewison